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Veva Ann <I>Pursley</I> Holt

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Veva Ann Pursley Holt

Birth
Death
13 Mar 1928 (aged 38)
Ventura County, California, USA
Burial
Eudora, Polk County, Missouri, USA Add to Map
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Veva Ann Pursley married Howard Holt in March of 1924. She left Missouri, travelling to California to visit her grandmother Amanda Mayfield. Sadly, she was one of over 400 victims of the St. Francis Dam disaster on March 12-13, 1928. She was returned to Missouri for burial.
38 year old victim of the St. Francis Dam disaster. The dam was built between 1924 and 1926 under the supervision of William Mulholland, chief engineer and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, then called the Bureau of Water Works and Supply. Three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood killed more than 450 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is one of the worst American civil engineering failures of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life in California's history, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire. The disaster marked the end of Mulholland's career. Many bodies were never recovered. Some were found as late as the 1970's.
Veva Ann Pursley married Howard Holt in March of 1924. She left Missouri, travelling to California to visit her grandmother Amanda Mayfield. Sadly, she was one of over 400 victims of the St. Francis Dam disaster on March 12-13, 1928. She was returned to Missouri for burial.
38 year old victim of the St. Francis Dam disaster. The dam was built between 1924 and 1926 under the supervision of William Mulholland, chief engineer and general manager of the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power, then called the Bureau of Water Works and Supply. Three minutes before midnight on March 12, 1928, the dam catastrophically failed, and the resulting flood killed more than 450 people. The collapse of the St. Francis Dam is one of the worst American civil engineering failures of the 20th century and remains the second-greatest loss of life in California's history, after the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and fire. The disaster marked the end of Mulholland's career. Many bodies were never recovered. Some were found as late as the 1970's.

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