In loving memory
Shirley Ann Gordon
February 27, 1941 – August 29, 2020
Lived 79 years
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1941
Born February 27
1942
Shirley was 1 when Bing Crosby recorded "White Christmas"
1954
Shirley was 13 when the Supreme Court struck down school segregation
1962
Shirley was 21 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war
1976
Shirley was 35 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1981
Shirley was 40 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Shirley was 57 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2007
Shirley was 66 when the first iPhone went on sale
2017
Shirley was 76 when "Fortnite" became a video game phenomenon
2020
Passed away August 29, age 79
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