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)

Vintage-Round-Graphic-Frame-GraphicsFairy

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Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record (Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania) . (1975, August 14). 1975 Clip Art Clothing Kids. Retrieved June 9, 2018, from Newspapers.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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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 3 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1930s

1930 -- Census, 20 Penn Street, Kingston PA
1935 -- Sodality Card Party

1930

Federal Census, 20 Penn Street, Kingston PA

20 Penn Street, Kingston PA

Here we find 13 year old Anna Vidunas living at 20 Penn Street with her mother and step-father Andrew Yorski, brothers Louis and John, and Louis' wife Frances and their two children Louis Jr and Dolores.  That's eight people in what looks to be a very tiny house.

If you look at the family above the Vidunas/Yorski household, you find the Markelonis family.  Martha is Mary Vidunas Yorski's sister who also immigrated from Lithuania.  They lived in the other half of the duplex-type home.

According to Realtor.com, this property was built in 1930, and currently (as of 2010) has six bedrooms and two baths (Klug, 2010).

Vidunas/Yorski family in 1930
google maps

Vidunas Yorski family in 1930
20 Penn Street, Kingston PA
The red arrow is where Anne lived
Yellow is the Markelonis cousins
Google Maps street view, 2012

Historical Insight -- Sears, Roebuck and Company

Anne Mary Vidunas most likely read or shopped from the Sears catalog about this time.

The Sears, Roebuc catalog helped rural families
purchase goods unavailable or too expensive at general stores
Credit:  Historic Catalogs of Sears, Roebuck and Co., 1896-1993/Ancestry.com
(Ancestry Historical Insight, 2018)

In 1886, about 65 percent of all Americans lived in rural areas and they were forced to pay high prices at local general stores.  But Richard Sears, a railway agent, used his spare time to sell valuable commodities, such as jewelry, along his route (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018).

Historical Insight -- The Great Depression

During the Great Depression, Anne Vidunas likely faced hardships like joblessness and scant resources while living in Kingston, Pennsylvania in 1930.

Dust storms wreaked havoc on farms across the American heartland, caused the closure of entire towns, and prompted hundreds of thousands to flee their homes for greener pastures along the West Coast.  Many became migrant farmers in California (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018).

April 1936, Cimarron County, Oklahoma
Credit:  Arthur Rothstein/Wikimedia Commons/Public Domain
(Ancestry Historical Insights 2018) 

Americans began withdrawing thier money from banks, causing them to fail.  Industrial production came to a standstill and unemployment skyrocketed.  Unable to pay their bills, hundreds of thousands of Americans became homeless (Ancestry Historical Insights, 2018).

How did this affect Anne?  She was about 15 years old, going to school with her siblings.

1935 Sodality Card Party

The images below are of the party put on by the church's Sodality club.  She was on the refreshment committee.  If you look at the names, you see they are mostly Polish and Lithuanian names.  The church was St. Mary's Lithuanian Church, we will see this church in a moment.  First, we have to figure out what Sodality means.

(The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1934)

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, 1934)

Sodality, according to the online dictionary, is "a confraternity or association, especially a Roman Catholic religious guild or brotherhood."  According to Wikipedia, it is "... a form of the 'Universal Church' expressed in specialized, task-oriented [group] ...." (Wikipedia -- Sodality, 2019).

(The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1934)

(The Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1934)

In Other News:  
In 1930 -- Pluto is discovered as our ninth planet -- for about 75 years ... Enjoy your status, Pluto! 
In 1931 -- Chinese-Japanese war #2 is fought for about 2 years (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the 32nd President of the United States

1933 - 1945 Franklin D. Roosevelt, 32nd President
(FDR Presidential Library & Museum, 2018)

President Roosevelt Quote: -- "When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on!" (Roosevelt, 2018)

In Other News:  
In 1933 -- Soviet Communist Party purge happens; Armstrong invents FM modulation; Radio Astronomy is developed
In 1934 -- The Longshoreman's Strike -- 35,000 men go on strike for 83 days -- that's a long time to go without food for those families (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1935

Residence 20 Penn Street, Kingston PA

According to the 1940 census (which we will get to in the next post), Anne was living in Kingston at this time.  However, we also have newspaper clippings and yearbook to establish this!

(The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1935)

(The Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1935)

Anne M. Vidunas graduates from Kingston High School

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News

Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1935)

1935 Kingston High School yearbook

(Kingston High School Senior Class, 1935)

1935 Kingston High School

(Kingston High School Senior Class, 1935)

Anne M. Vidunas, Senior Portrait
At last I have a photo

(Kingston High School Senior Class, 1935)

In Other News: 
in 1935 -- The Dust Bowl event scours middle America;  Abyssinian war against Italy lasts for about a year -- they lost
In 1936  -- King Edward VIII (Windsor) begins his -- very short -- reign; Spanish Civil war occurs in which the republican government loses to the Facists ; Helicoptor takes off; The King dies, and King George VI (Windsor) begins, lasting for 16 years (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1937

(The Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1927)

This tiny little piece indicates that Anne Vidunas was visiting her mother Mary Sadausky Vidunas Yorski and her stepfather Andrew Yorski at 20 Penn Street in Kingston PA.  Then she went back to nursing school at Mt. Sinai Hospital in NYC.  

We've already seen this home address above, in the 1930 census.  Let's look at Mt. Sinai Hospital

Mount Sinai Hospital, Manhattan NYC New York
Google Maps

In Other News:
In 1937  -- Nylon is developed by DuPont; Chinese-Japanese War #3 starts, lasting for about 8 years, with China winning. (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

http://ourtimelines.com/hpages/zcjwar3.html

1938

From the book The Forty-Seven Hundred

(Nowak, 1981)

In Other News:  -- Germany annexes Austria (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1939

1930s Nurse shoes

(Nienaber, 2013)

In Other News:  -- Aircraft Jet Engine is invented by Ohain, leading to my father's job as jet mechanic in the USAF; Digital Computer is developed; World War II starts, and the US will join the fight in another couple of years (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 2 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1920s

1920 -- Census, 71 Penn Street, Kingston PA

1920

Federal Census, Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania

Vidunas family
71 Penn Street, Kingston, Luzerne County PA

She was 2.5 years old, living with her mother Mary, siblings Louis, John, Stella and Joseph, my Grandfather.  They lived on 71 Penn Street, in Kingston.  According to realtor.com, it is now a four-apartment unit with one bedroom each.  They don't know when it was built (Altavilla, 2019).  Below is what the address looks like as of April 2012.

Anne Mary Vidunas
Red circle is the 1920 census address
Yellow highlights are where she lived in 1917
 and the church she would attend
Google Maps

71 and 73 Penn Street, Kingston PA
Google Maps street view, 2012

In other news: -- Women receive the right to vote (US Suffrage); Palestine is established;  Roaring 20s begins with prosperity for nearly everyone (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1921

Warren G. Harding becomes the 29th President of the United States

He served from 1921 until his death in 1923.  He was a Republican.  At that time, he was one of the most popular US Presidents, but the subsequent exposure of scandals that took place under his administration, and an affair eroded his popular regard.  Harding is often rated among the worst US Presidents (Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018).

 (Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018)

Quote:  "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalsy; not revolution but restoration" -- Warren G. Harding (Harding, 2018).

1922

In other news: -- Insulin is developed, saving lives of countless diabetics (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1923

Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States from 1923 to 1929

He was a Republican, Massachusetts governor, and Vice President, becoming President with the death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.  He was elected in his own right in 1924.  He said very little, although he had a rather dry sense of humor (Wikipedia -- Coolidge, 2018).

(Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018)

President Coolidge Quote -- "Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.  To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas" -- (Harding, 2018).

Grover Cleveland Stamp
(Wikipedia -- Harding, 2018}

In other news: 

In 1925, Scopes is on trial for teaching Evolutionary Theory in High School (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
In 1926, Movies begin having sound built in, rather than having an organist accompany the motion picture (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
In 1927, Lindbergh is the first man to make a solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean;  New York City opens the Holland Tunnel for the first time (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
In 1928, The Geiger Counter is developed to detect radiation; Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, saving countless lives; Television and Video recordings make their debut  (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

1929

Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st President of the United States

1929 Herbert Hoover, 31st President of the US
(Wikipedia -- Hoover, 2018)

President Herbert Hoover Quote: -- "Fishing is much more than fish.  It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers" (Hoover, 2018)

In other news: -- The Stock Market Crashed sending everyone into a Great Depression (OurTimelines.com, 2018).

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