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Shirley Neil Pettis (July 12, 1924 – December 30, 2016) was an American journalist and politician who served two terms as a U.S. representative from California between 1975 and 1979. She was first elected to fill the seat after her husband, Jerry Pettis, died in office....
Source: Shirley Neil Pettis Wikipedia article, link accessed February 7, 2025.
Born Shirley Neil McCumber in Mountain View, California, on July 12, 1924, to Harold Oliver and Dorothy Susan O'Neil McCumber, Shirley studied at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan, and at the University of California at Berkeley. After the death of her first husband, Dr. John McNulty, in World War II, she married Jerry L. Pettis, a World War II flight instructor. Jerry Pettis would go on to become a self–made millionaire and a professor of economics at Loma Linda University....
Full obituary (by Susan Onuma, published on website of Loma Linda University, January 5, 2017) accessed February 7, 2025.
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July 12, 1924
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Mountain View, Santa Clara County, California, United States
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| 1942 |
1942
- 1943
Age 17
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Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Berrien County, Michigan, United States
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1944
- 1945
Age 19
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University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, Alameda County, California, United States
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December 30, 2016
Age 92
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Rancho Mirage, Riverside County, California, United States
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