VETERAN
In Loving Memory
Victor Eugene Wager Jr.
July 7, 1930 – February 26, 2016
Lived 85 years
Graceland · Creston, Iowa
"I said that's life (that's life) And as funny as it may seem Some people get their kicks Stomping on a dream But I don't let it, let it get me down 'Cause this fine old world, it keeps spinnin' around"
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1930
Born July 7
1939
Victor was 9 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1945
Victor was 15 when World War II ended
1950
Victor was 20 when the Korean War began
1962
Victor was 32 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1971
Victor was 41 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Victor was 52 when "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" opened in theaters
1998
Victor was 68 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2004
Victor was 74 when Facebook was launched
2010
Victor was 80 when Apple's iPad went on sale
2016
Passed away February 26, age 85
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