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D10040-3
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- 1940-07-20 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Mrs. Susan Richardson celebrates her 100th birthday in her wheelchair at the Old Soldiers Home at Retsil. The feisty centenarian has one message for the Tacoma Times readers, "Keep Hitler Out of America." An ardent reader of the news of the European War, she vows that we should keep America for the Americans. She was born in Shelby County Ohio July 22, 1840 and crossed the Oregon Trail in 1843 with her grandmother, settling in the Oregon Territory. She remembers the crossing as uneventful; the Indians were not hostile at that point. She married Civil War veteran S.M. Richardson and still has two living children, Mrs. E.J. Fullerton and Thomas R. Riggs. (T. Times 7/22/1940, pg. 1)
Centenarians; Richardson, Susan;