Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 7 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1970s

1976, Brother John Joseph Vidunas dies
Nothing else happened in this decade that I am aware of.  Did she retire?  Did she keep up with church functions and community functions?

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 

the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record, 

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1972)

1970

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 

the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record, 

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1970)

In Other News:
1970  -- National Guard murders 4 students at Kent State University;  Microprocessor begins processing things http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zkentstate.html
1971  -- War flares up in Pakistan; Intel ships the very first uProcessor, the 4004 http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zpakwar.html
1973  -- The awful North Atlantic Trash patch was first discovered in this year; The October war between Israel and the Arabic nations erupts; The Internet becomes a thing (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zoctwar.html

1974 Nurses, (clusterpile, 2010)

1974

President Nixon resigns in disgrace ala the Watergate Scandal

Gerald Ford becomes the 38th President of the United States

1974 Gerald Ford
(Wikipedia -- Ford, 2018)

President Gerald Ford Quote: -- "Tell the truth, work hard, and come to dinner on time" (Ford, 2018)

In Other News:
1975  -- Ebola virus appears for the first time and is found to be 90% lethal!; Byte Magazine for computer geeks publishes it's first issue; the first home computer called The Altair 8800a begins connecting our worlds (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 

the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record 

(Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) , 1975)

1976

16 November 1976 -- brother John J. Vidunas dies

Anne Vidunas Beretsky mentioned in
John J. Vidunas obituary

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News

Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1976)

John J. Vidunas, 13 Cherry Street, Kingston, died Tuesday night in Nesbitt Memorial Hospital ... Surviving are ... sisters, Mrs. Stella Lowman, Kingston; Mrs. Ann Beretsky, Edwardsville.  Burial ... in St. Mary's Annunciation Church, Interment Parish Cemetery.

In Other News:  -- America celebrates her Bicentennial -- Happy 200th birthday!; Whites accept the principle of black majority rule in South Africa; Television begins satellite delivery; VHS Video Recordings begin entertaining us (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1977 Simpson's Leader Times Feb 24, 1977

1977

James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. becomes the 39th President of the United States

1977 Jimmy Carter
(Wikipedia -- Carter, 2018)

President Jimmy Carter Quote: -- "Globalization, as defined by rich people like us, is a very nice thing ... you are talking about the Internet, you are talking about cell phones, you are talking about computers.  This doesn't affect two-thirds of the people of the world" (Carter, 2018).

In Other News:
1977  -- The Neutron Bomb is developed with a bang!
1978  -- Jonestown pseudoreligious group commits mass suicide in which 913 people die -- they drank poisoned popular drink, thus begins the term "they drank the Kool-Aide" to describe one who follows a leader blindly; the first test tube baby was born; Laserdisc video recordings gives VHS a run for the money and were actually better -- sort of like huge CDs
1979 -- Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female Prime Minister; and Three Mile Island nuclear event happens (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

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clusterpile. (2010). Nurses. Retrieved December 11, 2019, from Wordpress -- clusterpile: https://clusterpile.wordpress.com/2011/05/19/nurses/amp/
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OurTimelines.com. (2018). TimeLines. (Timelines courtesy of www.ourtimelines.com. Timeline formatting and technology copyright © 2000-2018 ourtimelines.com, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED under the Pan-American Conventions.) Retrieved from OurTimeLines.com: http://ourtimelines.com/

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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 6 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1960s

1961, brother Louis dies

1960 Nurses, (clusterpile, 2010)

1961

12 February 1961 -- Brother Louis A. Vidunas dies

Anne's brother Louis Vidunas died

(Wiles-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News, 

 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1961)

"Louis A. Vidunas, 15 Cherry Street, Kingston, a retired mine worker, died last night at 10:50 in the Wyoming Valley Hospital, where he was admitted earlier in the day for medical treatment ... He also leaves a brother, John and two sisters, Mrs. Stella Lowman, Kingston, and Mrs. George Beretsky, Edwardsville" (Wiles-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1961)

What we get from this is that Anne Vidunas Beretsky was living in Edwardsville at this time.

John F. Kennedy becomes the 35th President of the United States

1961 - 1963 John F. Kennedy, 35th President
{Wikipedia -- Kennedy, 2018)

President John F. Kennedy Quote: -- "The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds" (Kennedy, 2018)

In Other News: 
1960 -- The US submarine Tritun is the first to circumnavigate the world completely under water; The first weather satellite -- Tiros I -- is launched; Laser is developed to a pin-point; and Pantyhose is developed
1961  -- Alan Shephard is aboard the First US manned spaceflight;  Yuri Gagarin is actually the First Human in space;  Berlin Wall goes up, separating Eastern Communist Germany from Western Democratic Germany and would stay up for nearly 30 years
1962  -- Cuban missile crisis threatens peace in our time; Vatican II proceeds (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1962 Cherry Ames Staff Nurse

(Wells, 1962)

1963

6 April 1963 -- Husband George Beretsky dies

Anne Vidunas Beretsky, wife of George Beretsky

George was a mechanic, living with his family at 41 Jackson Street, Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  His wife, is listed as Mrs Anna Beretsky, his father as Michael Beretsky (no mother listed).  Anna was the informant.  This was quite a tragedy, as George was in a field next to his house, working on a vehicle lifted up on jacks.  The front end slipped off the jacks.  He suffered internal injuries, and multiple fractures of the chest.  It was ruled an accident with no autopsy needed.  Apparently, he was working on the car on his time off, because it says the accident occurred "not while at work."   He was buried on 9 April 1963, at Denison Cemetery in Swoyersville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

One thing I noticed about this document is the ink.  It looks like it was written with a fountain pen of the time, with the uneven strokes.

George Beretsky Obituary

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 

the Evening News, 

 Wilkes-Barre Record, 

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1963)

Here we find a bit more information.  He told his wife he was going to work on the car.  George's brother Michael found him, called emergency services.  They provided oxygen and artificial respirations for about 45 minutes.  Remember, there was no CPR as we know it in 2019, but it probably would not have helped in this case.  He was also a WWII Navy Veteran.

An interesting note:  This man is George Beretsky born 1903.  There are several newspaper accounts of George Beretsky Jr who was in the US navy in WWII, who'd been in an accident severing both his legs.  He was 22 years old, making his date of birth 1925 or so.  They held fund raisers to get him into a business of some sorts.  Could this be Anne's son?  If you know that information, or would like the newspaper clippings, (from newspapers.com) give me a hollar using the contact form on the right.

41 Jackson Street, Edwardsville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

George and Ann Vidunas Beretsky 1963
71 Jackson Street, Edwardsville
Google Maps 2019
red is Anne's address 1963
blue is Anne's address 1950
yellow are other Vidunas events

Denison Cemetery, Swoyersville, Luzerne PA

Denison Cemetery, Swoyersville PA
Google Maps 2019
Red is George Beretsky 1963 burial
Yellow are other Vidunas events

Lyndon B. Johnson becomes the 36th President of the United States

1963 Lyndon B. Johnson, 36th President
(Wikipedia -- Johnson, 2018)

President Lyndon B. Johnson Quote: -- "We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into a brotherhood" (Johnson, 2018)

In Other News:  -- President Kennedy is Assassinated on public television;  The first artificial heart is developed this year; Compact Cassette Recordings become the new way to copy music; Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to reach outer space (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1964 City Directory

1964

In Other News:  -- US Civil Rights bill grants equal freedoms and rights to everyone; the Vietnam War starts this year and will take the lives of so many of our young men and ruin most of those who make it back home (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zvwar.html

1965

In Other News: 

1965 -- Blacks riot in the Watts neighborhood in Los Angeles;  First spacewalks happen jointly with the US and the USSR
1966  -- 8-track players begin filling our lives with music; and the US and USSR make the first soft landings on the moon (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1965_clip_art__technology,
12 transistor AM FM SW Portable Radio

(The Central New Jersey Home News 

(New Brunswick, New Jersey), 1965)

1967

In Other News:

1967  -- Marshall becomes the first black supreme court justice; the Six Day War between Israel and the Arabs erupts; the first human heart transplant saves a life; Physicist John Wheeler coins a term that becomes popular -- Black Hole; Nigerian civil war tears up that region, http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zncwar.html, http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zsixdaywar.html

1968 -- Martin Luther King is assassinated;  Robert Kennedy is assassinated (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1965_clip_art__technology,
Automatic Stereo Portable Phono

(The Central New Jersey Home News 

(New Brunswick, New Jersey), 1965)

1969

Richard M. Nixon becomes the 37th President of the United States

1969-1974 Richard M Nixon
(Wikipedia -- Nixon, 2018)

President Richard M. Nixon Quote: -- "The Cold War isn't thawing; it is burning with a deadly heat.  Communism isn't sleeping; it is, as always, plotting, scheming, working, fighting" (Nixon, 2018).

In Other News:  -- The first US Moon Landing by Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin gets people's imaginations going; Woodstock Music Festival does just about the same thing in a totally different and drugged out way; (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1965_clip_art__technology,
Famous Make 8mm Action Editor

(The Central New Jersey Home News 

(New Brunswick, New Jersey), 1965)

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