Douglas Richard Gerdts, b: -

^{1991 Persian Gulf War}
^{1992 Trade Pact, US, Canada, Mexico}
^{1999 Panama Canal turned over to Panama}
^{2001 Terrorists destroy WTC towers}

^{1950 Korean War begins}
^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on the moon}
^{1973 US launches Skylab space station}
^{1981 Columbia is first space shuttle}

^{1913 Edison invents movies w/sound}
^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1929 The Great Depression begins}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}



	^{Marvin Henry Gerdts}^{b. d.}

^{Douglas Richard Gerdts}^{b. d.}		^{Ralph Waldo Kirkman}^{b.1910 Pleasant Valley, CA d.1990 Reedley, Fresno Co, CA}

	^{Janice Beth Kirkman}^{b. d.}	^{Mary Alice Wilkey}^{b.1914 Downey, CA d.1988 Reedley, Fresno Co, CA}





^{Anne Louise Oneida}^{b. d.}