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Virginia Woods Bowling
April 14, 1930 – December 25, 2015
Lived 85 years
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1930
Born April 14
1939
Virginia was 9 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1944
Virginia was 14 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day
1955
Marriage to Sylvester Bowling
1955
Virginia was 25 when Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat
1967
Virginia was 37 when the first Super Bowl was played
1971
Virginia was 41 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1989
Virginia was 59 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1994
Virginia was 64 when "Friends" premiered
2005
Virginia was 75 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2014
Virginia was 84 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2015
Passed away December 25, age 85
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