Pearl will be celebrating this milestone event with family members. including two grandchildren. who will be gathering this weekend in the Washington. DC area where Pearls daughter and son have each settled. Pearl was born on April 6. 1917. in Indianapolis. Indiana. to immigrant parents (like so many other fine Americans) on that momentous day in history during which Congress declared war against Germany and the U.S. entered the conflict in Europe that became World War 1. Her mother was ill during most of her childhood and Pearl was always a great help in the home. Pearl graduated from Shortridge High School in Indianapolis in 1934 at the age of 17.
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