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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Wikipedia -- Kennedy. (2018, June 23). John F. Kennedy, 35th President. Retrieved June 23, 2018, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy

Wikipedia -- Nixon. (2018, June 23). Richard Nixon. Retrieved June 25, 2018, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Nixon

Wiles-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (1961, February 13). Louis A. Vidunas 1961 obituary. Retrieved December 11, 2019, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com
Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, the Evening News, Wilkes-Barre Record, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. (1963, April 8). Ann Vidunas Beretsky 1963 in obituary. Retrieved June 9, 2018, from Newspapers.com: Newspapers.com

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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 5 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1950s

1950 death of son Donald Beretsky

1950

23 January 1950 -- Son Donald Beretsky dies, aged 1 1/2 years old

Donald Beretsky 1950 Death Certificate

He had been born 17 July 1948 in Kingston at Nesbitt Memorial Hospital.  He died of GastroEnteroColitis which lasted for more than a day, dying in the same hospital.  They were living at 237 Nesbitt Street, in Larksville, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  Incidentally, Ann's name is mis-written as Bardunas.  The informant was they boy's father, George Beretsky, and we have a sample of his signature.  Baby Donald was buried two days later at St. Ignatius Cemetery in Pringle, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.

Gastroenterocolitis

Commonly known as the "stomach flu" but it is an inflammation (-itis) of the lining of the stomach (gastro-) and intestines (entero-), caused by a virus or bacteria or parasites.  The viral kind is the scond most common illness in the US, typically Norovirus.  Symptoms include abdominal pain, vomiting, fever and chills, but the most common problem is dehydration.  This happens most in babies, young children.  The best prevention is washing hands with soap and water, frequently (Medline, 2019).

237 Nesbitt Street

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1950 residence
Google Maps
Yellow highlited are other Vidunas events in Edwardsville

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1950 residence
Google Maps Streetview, April 2012
looks like the back side of the building

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1950 residence
Google Maps Satellite View
this gives us an idea the home might be on the back of the building

Nesbit Memorial Hospital, Kingston PA

(Digital Commonwealth Massachusetts Collections Online, 1930-1945)

St Ignatius Cemetery, Pringle, Luzerne PA

St Ignatius Cemetery on Hoyt Street
Pringle, Luzerne PA
Red is the cemetery
Yellow are other Vidunas events

In Other News:

1950  -- Bunche becomes the very First Black to win the Nobel Peace Prize;  World population is estimated at 2.4 billion this year; The Korean War starts up; and McCarthyism tries to fight communism in our communities
1951 -- Electricity from Atomic Power begins to light up our lives (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1950 nurses from clusterpile

(clusterpile, 2010)

1952

Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes the 34th President of the United States

1952 - 1960 Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President
(Wikipedia -- Eisenhower, 2018)

President Eisenhower Quote: -- "What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight -- it's the size of the fight in the dog" (Eisenhower, 2018)

1950s Buy Victory Bonds weird_vintage_ads_10

In Other News:
1952  -- The First Thermonuclear Device is detonated;  Queen Elizabeth II (Windsor) begins her long reign as Queen of England
1954  -- Racial segregation in schools is ruled unconstitutional -- until later years; UN Suffrage gives women the right to vote
1955  -- Warsaw pact is formed; Fiber Optics is a fascinating development; Salk's Polio Vaccine means children will not have to live out there lives in an iron lung; and Velcro starts to secure our edges together
1956  -- The Ocean liner Andrea Doria collides with the Stockholm, and sinks
1957  -- The Sputnik is launched, the first artificial satellite (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1958

1951 clip art, Wife in chains
Columbus_Daily_Enquirer_1951-10-24_12

In Other News:
1958  -- US space agency -- NASA -- is launched; FM Stereo begins broadcasting; Integrated Circuit is integrated into our lives; and Stereo LP recordings come intu usage, for which the teens are forever grateful
1959  -- Alaska enters the union as the 49th state; Hawaii enters the union as the 50th state; and the First nuclear powered merchant vessel, the Savannah, gets under way (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1951 ANC2_surgical_nurse

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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, part 4 of 8

Anne Vidunas Beretsky 1940s

1940 -- Census, Manhattan, New York City

1940

Anna Vidunas 1940 census
Manhattan Borough, NYC

Here we find her in Manhattan working Private Duty as a Registered Nurse.  She's living with her roommate, Lillian Miller, who is also a Private Duty Nurse.  They are both 23 years old, renting what might be an apartment.  Neither one of them attend school anymore, but we see they had four years of college.  Anna is from Pennsylvania, and Lillian is from Connecticut.  Anna was living in Kingston in 1935.

In Other News:
1940  -- US Army appoints the First Black General; Colour Television opens our eyes 
1941  -- The Manhattan Project begins, lasting four years (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1940s Nurse Uniform pattern

(Robert and Cynthia, 2019)

1942

In Other News:
1942  -- magnetic recording tape is developed; Nuclear Reactor is first built (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

avatar_health077d Grandmasgraphics

(Nilsen, n.d.)

1945

19 February 1945, Death of brother Joseph A. Vidunas (my grandfather)

Her brother Joseph died on 19 February 1945, in Brachelen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, when Anne Mary was 27 years old.  His Find a Grave memorial is here

1 Lt Joseph Vidunas, 1945
Find A Grave memorial 56304836

(War Graves, 2010)

26 August 1945, death of mother Mary Sadausky Vidunas Yorski

Her mother Mary passed away on 26 August 1945 in Kingston, Pennsylvania at the age of 60.  Anne Mary was 28 years old.  Her Find a Grave memorial is here

(Sheffler, 2019)

Harry S. Truman becomes the 33rd President of the United States

1945 - 1953 Harry S. Truman, 33rd President
(Wikipedia -- Truman, 2018)

President Truman Quote: -- "America was not built on fear.  America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand" (Truman, 2018)

In Other News:  -- United Nations meets for the first time; US drops the bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; hypertext links things together (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

1946

Anne Mary Vidunas and George Beretsky II marry

Ok.  So I know, somehow, that they married about this time.  But I cannot for the life of me tell you how I KNOW they married.  I don't have proof of any kind.  If you know where I can find that proof, let me know by using the contact form on the right.

So, apparently I do have a tertiary form of proof that she was married before 11 June 1946 because of this little article.  She is listed as living on Nesbitt street in Larksville.  We will take a look at that address in the next post.

11 June 1946

(Wilkes-Barre Times Leader, The Evening News, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1946)

In Other News:
In 1946  -- The Bikini is barely there; The Cold War heats up
In 1947  -- India and Pakistan emerge from ex-British India;  UN partitions Palestine to Jewish and Arab sections; Transistor is developed, leading to my first transistor radio (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

lady+liberty+vintage+graphicsfairy008c

(Nilsen, n.d.)

1948

17 July 1948, Birth of son Donald Beretsky

Donald is my First Cousin once removed.  He was born in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  We will have that secondary proof in the next post.

In Other News:
1948  -- NATO is formed; Israel is inaugurated as a state; Arabs attack Israel on the same day it is inaugurated; 33 1/3 RPM musical recordings hit the turntable
1949  -- Apartheid policy is held in South Africa; Soviets detonate their first nuclear bomb; 45 RPM musical recordings also hit the turntables (OurTimelines.com, 2018)

Vintage-Wicker-Baby-Carriage-Image-GraphicsFairy

(Nilsen, n.d.)

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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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Altavilla, K. (2019). 71-73 Penn St, Kingston, PA 18704. Retrieved December 9, 2019, from Realtor.com: https://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/71-73-Penn-St_Kingston_PA_18704_M96589-55428#photo0

Coolidge, C. (2018). Calvin Coolidge Quotes. Retrieved from BrainyQuotes: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/calvin_coolidge

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Hoover, H. (2018). Herbert Hoover Quotes. Retrieved June 2018, from BrainyQuote: https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/herbert_hoover

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Wikipedia -- Harding. (2018, May 26). Warren G. Harding. Retrieved May 27, 2018, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding

Wikipedia -- Hoover. (2018, May 26). Herbert Hoover, 31st President. Retrieved May 27, 2018, from Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Hoover

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Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky, 1917 - 1981 part 1 of 8

Anne Mary Vidunas Beretsky 1910s

1917 -- Anne Mary Vidunas is born
1917 -- Father Augustus Vidunas dies
1917 -- World War I
1919 -- Paris Peace Talks

Mini Pedigree from Ancestry.com

Anne is my Great Aunt, the sister to my Grandfather Joseph Vidunas.

from Ancestry.com

1917

Birth, 29 March 1917

By the time she was born, America was about to get involved in World War I.  I don't have a birth certificate for her, but I have secondary and tertiary sources which all point to her birth date as 29 March 1917, in Kingston, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania.  We know she lived at 48 Pulaski Street in Kingston, because her father lived there when he died.  According to Wikipedia, there were 6,440 people living in Kingston as of the 1910 census (Wikipedia -- Kingston, 2019).

Location of Kingston in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania
(Wikipedia -- Kingston, 2019)

Below are images from Google Maps and Street view, of 48 Pulaski street, Kingston

Kingston PA, google maps

Red circle is her place of birth
Google maps

Street view of 48 Pulaski.  On the right with red arrow

April 1917 -- Historical Insight -- America Enters World War I

Enacted just a month after the US declared war on Germany, the Selective Service Act required all males from the ages of 21 to 30 to register for military service.  By the end of the war, half of the 4.8 million soldiers in the American military had been drafted.

1917, Camp Admiral, Maryland
Credit:  Underwood Archives/Archive Photos/Getty Images
(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

Death of her father, Augustus W. Vidunas 
She was only 2 months old when her father died.  He was working in the coal mine, had an accident with an axe on his knee.  It became infected and he died.  He was only 35 years old.  Today, we would call that sepsis.  His Find a Grave memorial is here.

Augustas Vidunas 1917 grave stone detail FAG 46205516

In other news:
In 1917, Russian revolution starts; US enters WWI (OurTimelines.com, 2018).
In 1918, Flu epidemic lasted two years, yet killed 25 million or more US citizens;  Prohibition started;  (OurTimelines.com).

(Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, Iowa, 1911)

1919

Historical Insight -- Paris Peace Conference

1919, Paris, France
Credit:  Library of Congress

(Ancestry Historical Insights, 2019)

Separate peace treaties were negotiated with the five nations who were viewed as aggressors during the war

In other news: -- League of Nations instituted;  Shortwave Radio invented (OurTimelines.com).

1912 Dress

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