In loving memory
Barbara Carolyn Wright
August 11, 1928 – February 14, 2009
Lived 80 years
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1928
Born August 11
1929
Barbara was 1 when the stock market crashed on Black Tuesday
1935
Barbara was 7 when Parker Brothers released Monopoly
1944
Barbara was 16 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day
1951
Barbara was 23 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1963
Barbara was 35 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1976
Barbara was 48 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1989
Barbara was 61 when "The Simpsons" debuted as a series
1991
Barbara was 63 when the Soviet Union dissolved
2004
Barbara was 76 when Facebook was launched
2009
Passed away February 14, age 80
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