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1934
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Born

February 22nd, 1934
1951
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Graduated from high school

June 8th, 1951
Battle Creek Public Schools, MI
1952
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Had a child, MITCHELL AVERY

October 23rd, 1952
Battle Creek, MI
1959
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Moved

1959
Long Beach, CA
1960
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Moved

1960
Barbers Point Housing, Honolulu, HI
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Got married to Vance Elton Avery

April 18th, 1960
Las Vegas, NV
1964
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There are no photos growing up so I am using a yearbook cover while we were in Spain

1964
Base Naval de Rota, Base Naval, Spain
1968
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Moved from Spain to Sasebo JPN and again, Mom was not a picture taker so I stuck in a yearbook cover from HS.

1968
Sasebo, Nagasaki, Japan
1969
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Moved from Sasebo JPN to Itazuke AFB in Fukuoka, JPN. No pics.

1969
From Sasebo, JPN to Itazuke AFB, JPN
1973
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I went to Oregon State Univ. from Japan and started undergrad. school in 1970. There was a pic with my Grandmother Edith Gasser, Mom and Dad and Me. My parents moved to the Corvallis area around 1973 from Hayward, CA

1973
Corvallis, OR
1974
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Mom bothers Dad to apply for Mensa, he passed with an IQ of 176. Can you imagine growing up in that shadow?

1974
Hayward, CA
1975
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Mom and Dad moved to Newport, OR and I moved to graduate school in Santa Cruz, CA about the same time.

1975
1979
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Mom insists on bragging about my Ph.D. in Chemistry

1979
Santa Cruz, CA, USA University of California, Santa Cruz
1982
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Mom embarrasses me bragging about various professional positions at SRI International, Univ. North Dak., and Professor of Medicinal Chemistry,Univ. of Mississippi and I know she would like this last chance to get in some further gratuitous, bragging

1982
Palo Alto, CA; Grand Forks, ND; Oxford, MS.
1985
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Had a grandchild, Alexander Mitchell Avery

August 25th, 1985
Palo Alto, CA
1995
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Vance died in 1995 from cancer.

1995
Newport, OR
1998
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Here begins my Mothers collecting of purses, watches, and sunglasses. I guess she liked friendly competition with friends and acquaintances.

1998
Newport, OR
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Had a grandchild, Korben Nelson Avery

May 22nd, 1998
Oxford, MS
2023
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Passed away

June 19th, 2023
Newport, OR
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