 Birth | October 18, 1921 27 21 |
 Birth of a brother | Jack W Bland Bland February 11, 1924 (Age 2 years) |
 Historical Event | The Great Depression October 1929 (Age 7 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 14, 1930 (Age 8 years) |
| Death of a brother | Joe Vernon Bland December 7, 1930 (Age 9 years) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Daniel Martin McGehee July 8, 1934 (Age 12 years) |
| Marriage of a parent | Ralph Omar Wilder — Dealia Lavada McGehee — View this family March 17, 1945 (Age 23 years) |
| Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 20 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 |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 28 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 | Joe B Bland December 28, 1968 (Age 47 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 24 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 | Dealia Lavada McGehee January 3, 1986 (Age 64 years) |
| Death of a brother | Jack W Bland Bland October 31, 2010 (Age 89 years) |
 Death | April 30, 2018 (Age 96 years) |
 Burial | Cemetery - also add to Place of burial: Lonoke Cemetery |