In loving memory
Alvin Jesse Curtis
February 7, 1923 – August 26, 2008
Lived 85 years
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1923
Born February 7
1929
Alvin was 6 when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday
1939
Alvin was 16 when World War II began in Europe
1942
Alvin was 19 when Bing Crosby recorded "White Christmas"
1959
Alvin was 36 when Barbie made her debut
1963
Alvin was 40 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1971
Alvin was 48 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1989
Alvin was 66 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1991
Alvin was 68 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2001
Alvin was 78 when Apple introduced the iPod
2008
Passed away August 26, age 85
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