In loving memory
Nellie JoAnn Hoak
August 18, 1929 – February 17, 2017
Lived 87 years
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1929
Born August 18
1935
Nellie was 6 when Parker Brothers released Monopoly
1941
Nellie was 12 when the United States entered World War II
1950
Nellie was 21 when the Korean War began
1969
Nellie was 40 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1971
Nellie was 42 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida
1982
Nellie was 53 when "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" opened in theaters
1998
Nellie was 69 when Google was founded
2005
Nellie was 76 when the first video was posted to YouTube
2014
Nellie was 85 when the Ice Bucket Challenge went viral
2017
Passed away February 17, age 87
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