In loving memory
John Stephen Barker
February 10, 1939 – January 4, 2017
Lived 77 years
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1939
Born February 10
1945
John was 6 when World War II ended
1958
John was 19 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1963
John was 24 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1974
John was 35 when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency
1982
John was 43 when Michael Jackson released "Thriller"
1998
John was 59 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2005
John was 66 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2014
John was 75 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2017
Passed away January 4, age 77
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