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Earl Eugene Decker Sr.

June 23, 1933 – June 7, 2021

Lived 87 years

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1933

Born June 23

1939

Earl was 6 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta

1944

Earl was 11 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day

1950

Earl was 17 when the Korean War began

1962

Earl was 29 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war

1971

Earl was 38 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida

1981

Earl was 48 when MTV began broadcasting

1991

Earl was 58 when the Soviet Union dissolved

2007

Earl was 74 when the first iPhone went on sale

2010

Earl was 77 when Apple's iPad went on sale

2020

Earl was 87 when SpaceX launched astronauts into orbit for the first time

2021

Passed away June 7, age 87

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Happy Birthday!

Yesterday, would have been Pop’s 92nd birthday. Pop you also have another baby on the way! We don’t know what it is yet, we’ll bring him or her back to meet you soon enough, they’ll know all about you.

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Merry Christmas

Christmas 2023

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