 Birth | about 1933 26 20 |
 Birth of a brother | Robert Frank Purvis April 18, 1934 (Age 15 months) |
| Death of a maternal grandfather | Marion Arthur Kittrell April 15, 1936 (Age 3 years) |
 Census | April 4, 1940 (Age 7 years) |
 Historical Event | World War II between December 1941 and August 1945 (Age 8 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 |
| Death of a maternal grandmother | Sarah Maude McKnab March 1, 1947 (Age 14 years) |
| Historical Event | Korean War between 1950 and 1953 (Age 17 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 |
| Marriage of a parent | Everett William Blair — Leila Bell Kittrell — View this family March 30, 1962 (Age 29 years) |
| Historical Event | Vietnam War between 1946 and 1975 (Age 13 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 | Leila Bell Kittrell March 21, 2002 (Age 69 years) |
| Death of a father | Frank Leslie Purvis January 14, 2004 (Age 71 years) |
| Death of a wife | Marlene Willard May 20, 2011 (Age 78 years) |
| Death of a brother | Robert Frank Purvis December 24, 2011 (Age 78 years) |
 Death | January 24, 2012 (Age 79 years) |