≡

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

31 Mar 1920 - 5 Mar 2007

Change Your Language

You can change the language of the BillionGraves website by changing the default language of your browser.

Learn More

English

Register

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

31 Mar 1920 - 5 Mar 2007

Grave site information of 'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin (31 Mar 1920 - 5 Mar 2007) at Palm Northwest - Funeral Home and Cemetery in Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States from BillionGraves

Life Information

Register to get full access to the grave site record of 'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

Terms and Conditions

We want you to know exactly how our service works and why we need your registration in order to allow full access to our records.

I agree to the terms and conditions

Contact Permissions

We’d like to send you special offers and deals exclusive to BillionGraves users to help your family history research. All emails include an unsubscribe link. You may opt-out at any time.

Yes please, I’d like to hear about offers and services

Only notify me of service opportunities in my area and educational emails

No thanks, I don’t want to hear about offers and services

Facebook Login

Sign up the easy way

Use your facebook account to register with BillionGraves. It will be one less password to remember. You can always add an email and password later.

Loading

Life Information

Setting Primary Image

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

Born: 31 Mar 1920

Died: 5 Mar 2007

Palm Northwest - Funeral Home and Cemetery

6651-6719 N Jones Blvd

Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada

United States

Epitaph

Blessed be

Transcriber

fosgiff

September 24, 2013

Photographer

Allystolworthy

September 18, 2013

Nearby Graves

See more nearby graves

Find more about "Chet" Chester Thomas...

We found more records about 'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin.

Grave Site of "Chet" Chester Thomas

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin is buried in the Palm Northwest - Funeral Home and Cemetery at the location displayed on the map below. This GPS information is ONLY available at BillionGraves. Our technology can help you find the gravesite and other family members buried nearby.

Cemetery Name

Palm Northwest - Funeral Home and Cemetery

Cemetery Address

6651-6719 N Jones Blvd
Las Vegas,Clark,Nevada
United States

Download the free BillionGraves mobile app for iPhone and Android before you go to the cemetery and it will guide you right to the gravesite.

android Google play phone_iphone App Store

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

Life timeline of 'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin

1920

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was born on 31 Mar 1920

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 19 years old when Adolf Hitler signs an order to begin the systematic euthanasia of mentally ill and disabled people. Adolf Hitler was a German politician, demagogue, and Pan-German revolutionary, who was the leader of the Nazi Party, Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and Führer ("Leader") of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. As dictator, Hitler initiated World War II in Europe with the invasion of Poland in September 1939, and was central to the Holocaust.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 24 years old when World War II: The Allied invasion of Normandy—codenamed Operation Overlord—begins with the execution of Operation Neptune (commonly referred to as D-Day), the landing of 155,000 Allied troops on the beaches of Normandy in France. The Allied soldiers quickly break through the Atlantic Wall and push inland in the largest amphibious military operation in history. The Allies of World War II, called the United Nations from the 1 January 1942 declaration, were the countries that together opposed the Axis powers during the Second World War (1939–1945). The Allies promoted the alliance as a means to control German, Japanese and Italian aggression.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 36 years old when Disneyland Hotel opens to the public in Anaheim, California. The Disneyland Hotel is a resort hotel located at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California, owned by the Walt Disney Company and operated through its Parks, Experiences and Consumer Products division. Opened on October 5, 1955, as a motor inn owned and operated by Jack Wrather under an agreement with Walt Disney, the hotel was the first to officially bear the Disney name. Under Wrather's ownership, the hotel underwent several expansions and renovations over the years before being acquired by Disney in 1988. The hotel was downsized to its present capacity in 1999 as part of the Disneyland Resort expansion.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 49 years old when During the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC; Aldrin joined him about 20 minutes later. They spent about two and a quarter hours together outside the spacecraft, and collected 47.5 pounds (21.5 kg) of lunar material to bring back to Earth. Michael Collins piloted the command module Columbia alone in lunar orbit while they were on the Moon's surface. Armstrong and Aldrin spent 21.5 hours on the lunar surface before rejoining Columbia in lunar orbit.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 53 years old when Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China, and other communist allies; the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war by some US perspectives. The majority of Americans believe the war was unjustified. The war would last roughly 19 years and would also form the Laotian Civil War as well as the Cambodian Civil War, which also saw all three countries become communist states in 1975.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 60 years old when Mount St. Helens erupts in Washington, United States, killing 57 people and causing $3 billion in damage. Mount St. Helens or Louwala-Clough is an active stratovolcano located in Skamania County, Washington, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. It is 50 miles (80 km) northeast of Portland, Oregon and 96 miles (154 km) south of Seattle, Washington. Mount St. Helens takes its English name from the British diplomat Lord St Helens, a friend of explorer George Vancouver who made a survey of the area in the late 18th century. The volcano is located in the Cascade Range and is part of the Cascade Volcanic Arc, a segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire that includes over 160 active volcanoes. This volcano is well known for its ash explosions and pyroclastic flows.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin was 74 years old when The Rwandan genocide begins when the aircraft carrying Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian president Cyprien Ntaryamira is shot down. The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, was a genocidal mass slaughter of Tutsi in Rwanda by members of the Hutu majority government. An estimated 500,000 to 1,000,000 Rwandans were killed during the 100-day period from 7 April to mid-July 1994, constituting as many as 70% of the Tutsi population. Additionally, 30% of the Pygmy Batwa were killed. The genocide and widespread slaughter of Rwandans ended when the Tutsi-backed and heavily armed Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) led by Paul Kagame took control of the country. An estimated 2,000,000 Rwandans, mostly Hutus, were displaced and became refugees.

'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin died on 5 Mar 2007 at the age of 86

BillionGraves.com

Grave record for 'Chet' Chester Thomas Rankin (31 Mar 1920 - 5 Mar 2007), BillionGraves Record 5270557 Las Vegas, Clark, Nevada, United States

Take BillionGraves with you wherever you go.

Download the free BG app and you`ll be able to contribute, and have access to our worldwide headstone database.

Search Transcribe BillionGraves+ Download Apps

Community Support Blog About Us

Service / Eagle Projects Help translate this page

© 2019 BillionGraves Holdings, Inc. All Rights Reserved / Terms of Use / Privacy Policy

Loading