Ruth M. Witman, b: 1925 -

^{1964 - 1973 Vietnam War}
^{1969 Armstrong first person on the moon}
^{1973 US launches Skylab space station}
^{1981 Columbia is first space shuttle}
^{1991 Persian Gulf War}

^{1914 - 1918 World War I}
^{1929 The Great Depression begins}
^{1939 - 1945 World War II}
^{1945 Atomic bomb detonated (Hiroshima)}
^{1950 Korean War begins}

^{1879 Edison invents phono/light bulb}
^{1898 Spanish-American War}
^{1903 Wright brothers 1st plane flight}
^{1908 Ford produces Model T}
^{1913 Edison invents movies w/sound}




^{Roy H. Smeltzer}^b.1922 d.





	^{Ralph S. Witman}^b.1899 d.

^{Ruth M. Witman}^{b.1925 , d.}		^{Rufus Howard Laudenslager}^{b.1871 d.1924}

	^{Pearl E. Laudenslager}^{b.1898 d.1978}	^{Cecelia Susan Schlegel}^{b.1870 d.1923}