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Portrait of Gloria Nuku
Gods Glory On Earth - Heaven-O Glo

Gloria Nuku

January 5, 1950 – July 20, 2011
Lived 61 years
Nuku Whanau Urupa - Kawera, Taihape Road · Hastings, Hawkes Bay
Life story

Gloria is the 12th child of Pareputiputi and Peter Nuku. Her siblings are Hemi, Wiramena, Te Awhina, Pete, Tamihana, Chappie, Agnes, Sonny, Pamela, Phillip, Memory, Priscilla, Walker II, and Kota.

Gloria has 3 Children, Kandy, Nuala and Chewy.

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1950
Born January 5
1950
Heaven'O Glo was born
1957
Gloria was 7 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik
1962
Gloria was 12 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1972
1st Child born - Kandy
1975
Gloria was 25 when Saigon fell, ending the Vietnam War
1976
2nd Child born - Nuala
1978
3rd Child born - Chewy
1989
Gloria was 39 when the Berlin Wall fell
1990
1st Grandchild - D-Jae was born
1991
Gloria was 41 when the Soviet Union dissolved
1997
2nd Grandchild Shayd was born
2000
Gloria was 50 when the world entered 2000 with few Y2K computer problems
2006
3rd Grandchild Moana was born
2006
4th Grandchild Adonysa was born
2009
5th Grandchild Gloria was born
2010
6th Grandchild Luke was born
2010
Gloria was 60 when 33 trapped Chilean miners were rescued
2011
Glo Passed Away
2011
7th Grandchild Thane was born
2011
Passed away July 20, age 61
2013
8th Grandchild Mesayah was born
2015
9th Grandchild Charlie was born
2017
10th Grandchild Buster was born
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