Margaret Edna “Margie” SpargerAge: 101 years1914–2015
- Name
- Margaret Edna “Margie” Sparger
- Given names
- Margaret Edna
- Surname
- Sparger
- Nickname
- Margie
- Married name
- Margaret Edna Austell
 Birth | January 6, 1914 32 23 |
 Birth of a brother | William Allen Sparger July 3, 1915 (Age 17 months) |
 Historical Event | Polio Epidemic 1916 (Age 23 months)Note: Over 7,000 deaths and 27,363 cases reported in America's worst polio (infantile paralysis) epidemic - http://goo.gl/ZBEQA1 |
| Historical Event | World War I between 1917 and November 1918 (Age 2 years)Note: The United States enters 'The Great War' where more than nine million combatants were killed- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I |
| Historical Event | Spanish Influenza Epidemic 1918 (Age 3 years)Note: Spanish Influenza killed over 500,000 people in the United States, and somewhere between 20 and 40 million in what has been cited as the most devastating epidemic in history - http://virus.stanford.edu/uda/ |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Whitson Berry “WB” Yarbourgh March 17, 1925 (Age 11 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Martha Jeanette “Mattie” Arnold January 16, 1929 (Age 15 years) |
| Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 15 years)Note: The Wall Street Crash sets off the Great Depression, the most severe worldwide economic depression in the 20th century - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression |
 Census | April 16, 1930 (Age 16 years) |
| Census | April 22, 1940 (Age 26 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 27 years)Note: The United States enters World War II after the attack at Pearl Harbor, a global war that involved the vast majority of the world's nations and including all of the great powers - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II |
| Birth of a son #1 | Frank Sparger Austell October 23, 1951 (Age 37 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 35 years)Note: The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (South Korea), supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), at one time supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_War |
| Death of a father | William Franklin Sparger May 21, 1965 (Age 51 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 31 years)Note: The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The divisive war, increasingly unpopular at home, ended with the withdrawal of U.S. forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in the conflict. - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War |
| Death of a mother | Edna Arnold Yarbourgh December 11, 1976 (Age 62 years) |
| Death of a brother | William Allen Sparger December 14, 1986 (Age 72 years) |
| Death of a son | Frank Sparger Austell September 15, 1993 (Age 79 years) |
| Death of a husband | Dan Walter Austell October 11, 2010 (Age 96 years) |
 Death | May 23, 2015 (Age 101 years) |
| Family with parents |
| father |
William Franklin Sparger Birth: January 4, 1882 — Surry, North Carolina, United States Death: May 21, 1965 — Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
| mother |
Edna Arnold Yarbourgh Birth: February 9, 1890 33 30 — Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: December 11, 1976 — Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
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Marriage: — |
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| herself |
Margaret Edna “Margie” Sparger Birth: January 6, 1914 32 23 — Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: May 23, 2015 — Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States |
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18 months younger brother |
William Allen Sparger Birth: July 3, 1915 33 25 — Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: December 14, 1986 — Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States |
| Family with Dan Walter Austell |
| husband |
Dan Walter Austell Birth: March 8, 1914 — Spartanburg, Spartanburg, South Carolina, United States Death: October 11, 2010 — Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States |
| herself |
Margaret Edna “Margie” Sparger Birth: January 6, 1914 32 23 — Lexington, Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: May 23, 2015 — Winston-Salem, Forsyth, North Carolina, United States |
| son |
Private |
| son |
Frank Sparger Austell Birth: October 23, 1951 37 37 — Davidson, North Carolina, United States Death: September 15, 1993 — Chesterfield, Virginia, United States |
| Census | 1930 United States - Census transcript - William Franklin Sparger - Household
404 West Second Ave Lexington, Davidson, NC.
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| Census | 1940 United States - Census transcript - William Franklin Sparger - Household
404 West Second Ave Lexington, Davidson, NC.
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