Lillian S. Lussier, 105, of Sayville , died October 29. A resident of the Sayville -Bohemia area for over 80 years, Mrs. Lussier had been living with her daughter, Dr. Virginia Lee Lussier in Northridge, CA. She was born in Bohemia, graduated from Sayville High School and attended Brown Business School in New York. She worked as a bookkeeper and accountant in New York, Los Angeles and at the La Salle Military Academy for the last 30 years of her career.
Mrs. Lussier is survived by her daughter, Virginia; and by nieces and nephews on Long Island and in Florida and the Los Angeles area.
Suffolk County News (Sayville, NY) (Published as Suffolk County News ( Sayville , NY) ) - November 11, 2010
Section: Obituaries, Page: 6
Mrs.Lillian S. Zdenek Lussier sister Anna M. Zdenek O'Grady lived until she was 101, Anna was lied to rest at Saint Anns Cemetery, Sayville, NY.
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What remarkable changes she must have seen during her lifetime.
1905 - The Wright Brother's third aeroplane(Wright Flyer III) stays in the air for 39 minutes.
1910 - Theodore Roosevelt became the first former president to ride in an airplane.
1915 - The RMS Lusitania is sunk on passage from New York to Britain by a German U-boat, killing 1,198.
1920 - Prohibition in the United States begins with the Eighteenth Amendment to The Constitution.
1926 - In New York City, the Warner Brother' Vitaphone system premiered with the movie Don Juan starring John Barrymore.
1930 - The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.
- Jimmy Dewar invests Hostess Twinkies.
1935 - Amelia Earhart becomes the first person to fly solo from Hawaii to California.
1940 - California's first modern freeway, State Route 110, opens to traffic.
1941 - Attack on Pearl Harbor, thus drawing the U.S. into World War II
1945 - World War II ends.
1950 - The comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.
1955 - Ray Kroc opens his first McDonald's in Des Plaines Illinois.
1960 - Democratic U.S. Senator John F. Kennedy was elected president.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy assassination
1969 - Moon Landing - Neil Armstrong takes the first historic steps by a human on the surface.
1972 - The first Boston Marathon in which women are officially allowed to compete.
1975 - End of Vietnam War
1983 - The first woman in space,Sally Ride on the Challenger
1992 - After 30 years Johnny Carson retired as host of NBC's The Tonight Show.
1996 - One of the worst blizzards in American history hits the eastern states, dropping 20 inches of snow, has gust winds of 50 mph and snow drifts up to 8 feet.
2000 - The New York Yankees defeated the New York Mets in game 5 to win their 26th World Series title.
2001 - 9/11
2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere
2010 - Apple released the first iPad in the U.S.