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Ysmael "Smiley" Gonzales

September 4, 1931 – April 3, 2012

Lived 80 years

Oregon

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1931

Born September 4

1939

Ysmael was 8 when "The Wizard of Oz" opened in theaters

1942

Ysmael was 11 when Bing Crosby recorded "White Christmas"

1950

Ysmael was 19 when the Korean War began

1962

Ysmael was 31 when the Cuban Missile Crisis brought the world to the brink of nuclear war

1971

Ysmael was 40 when Walt Disney World opened in Florida

1981

Ysmael was 50 when MTV began broadcasting

1997

Ysmael was 66 when "Titanic" opened in theaters

2005

Ysmael was 74 when the first video was posted to YouTube

2010

Ysmael was 79 when Instagram was launched

2012

Passed away April 3, age 80

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Beth Fouch 83w

Memories of Papa

I loved how you would always tell us stories in the car while Nana went shopping, carting us around in the trailer at the Gales Creek property, talked to Nana in Spanish on the way to mass if you didn't want us to hear something, always had our favorite cartoons ready to go for sleepovers, and you always had the best funny voices. I loved our birthday lunches & our rides back from Paradise Cove. I love you and miss you so much, Papa.

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