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Lynn Thomas Lowe 69
Peggy LaNae Peterson (Lowe) 65

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Peggy Lynette Lowe (Phillips) 42
Sandra LaNae Lowe (Johnson) 41
Md: Ronald Evan Johnson 50
Debra Eileen Lowe 35
Michelle Ann Lowe 33
Lori Ellen Lowe (Hatfield) 31
Md: Geoffrey Georg Hatfield 28

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Jennifer Lyn Atwood 21
Jeremy Scott Atwood 17
Michael Evan Johnson 7
Alena Ann Hatfield 2

General

Population: 6.7 Billion

• World-wide recession begins
• Argentine president calls for "new Bretton Woods" economic summit - G-20 leaders meet and unpeg global currency from US dollar
• Science: Creation of the genus "Beezelbufo" for fossilized devil toads
• Deaths: fashionista Yves St. Laurent, Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, Bozo the Clown, Russian author Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, William F. Buckley, Sydney Pollack, Michael Crichton, Ertha Kit, Heath Ledger, Charlton Heston, Paul Newman, Tim Russert, Bernie Mac, Harvey Corman, George Carlin

Africa

• Chad: Cholera
• Congo: Earthquake
• Madagascar: Plague
• Zimbabwe: Cholera

Americas

• Brazil: Dengue Fever outbreak
  Priest Adelir Antonio blown out to sea in blustered balloon flight – couldn't work his GPS
• Canada: Quake in Queen Charlotte Islands
  Kenyan student Isaiah Otieno killed when helicopter fell on him
• Chile: Volcano erupts
• Cuba: Castro resigns as president and his brother rules
• Haiti: School collapse kills hundreds
• Venezuela: Troops ordered to Colombian border after military leader kills rebel

Asia

• Cambodia: Dengue fever outbreak
• China: 7.9 earthquake kills over 67,000
  Muslims kill 16 on western border four days before Olympics
  Bus bombings before Olympics
  American relative of women's volleyball coach attacked and stabbed
  American Michael Phelps wins record number of medals
  Blizzard kills 133
  Hand foot and mouth disease outbreak
• India: 195 die in terrorist attacks in Mumbai
• Indonesia: 7.7 earthquake
• Japan: Earthquake
• Myanmar: Cyclone Nargil kills at least 78,000 - government prevents aid from entering
• Philippines: Dengue fever outbreak
• Singapore: Nordin Montog enters white tiger exhibit at zoo and provokes them - eaten
• Taiwan: 6.8 earthquake
• Thailand: Bangkok nightclub fire kills 53
• Tibet: China crushes opposition and names Dali Lama an enemy before Olympics
• Vietnam: Cholera outbreak

Europe

• General: Fire in chunnel
• Albania: Weapons plant explodes
• Georgia: Russia invades
• Great Britain: Camden Market and Grand Pier burn down
  5.3 earthquake
  Hurricane hits Britain
  Gerald Mellin commits suicide by putting rope around neck and tying off – then driving off
  David Phyall cuts off his own head with a chainsaw to protest having to move
• Greece: Earthquake
• Norway: Earthquake
• Russia: Death of author Aleksander Solzhenitsyn
  Nuclear-powered submarine accident kills 20
  Dimitri Medyedev elected and names Putin as Prime Minister
• Serbia: Kosovo declares independence - opposed by Russia and Serbia
  US Embassy bombed

Middle East

• Afghanistan: War continues
  Blizzard kills 133
• Iraq: War continues
• Turkey: Explosions in Istanbul

Pacific

• Australia: Snow falls in Sydney for first time in 100 years

President:

Pres: George W. Bush
Pres: Barack H. Obama elected

General

• Finance: Stock market drops over 35% from 2007 high of 14164 to below 10,000
  Interests rates drop to 0-0.25%
• Politics: Hillary Clinton becomes first female presidential candidate and Sarah Palin first female Republican vice-presidental candidate
• Religion: Pope Benedict XVI visits States
• Deaths: Charlton Heston dies

East

• Maine: Flooding
• New York: Bomb at armed-forces recruiting office in Times Square NYC
  Mayor Elliot Spitzer caught in prostitution ring
  Last game at Yankee Stadium - replacement stadium built

Midwest

• General: February tornadoes kill at least 55
  Flooding creates Missouri and Iowa disasters
• Illinois: Valentine's Day university shooting
  SE IL quake (5.0) sways buildings in Chicago and Cincinnati
  Robbery turns into execution of five women at Chicago Lane Bryant store
  Explosion in shopping complex
• Iowa: Flooding extensive
  Tornado near Sioux City kills four boy scouts
• Minnesota: Home explosion
  6 year old Abigail Taylor dies after sitting on hugh-suction swimming pool drain – internal organs sucked into lower body and when her pancreas was being replaced she contracted rare transplant-related cancer
• Missouri: Gunman fires on city council building
  Flooding along river
• Ohio: Teacher stabbed by husband
  James Mason dies after wife exercises him to death in pool
• Wisconsin: Bus crash kills 5

South

• Arkansas: Democratic leader and assassin shot
• Florida: Power outage
• Georgia: Atlanta tornado
• Kentucky: Plastics-plant shooting kills five plus gunman
• Louisiana: School shooting
  Hurricane Gustav hits during opening of Republican convention
• North Carolina: Two cases of pregnant marines found dead
  Murders in colleges
• Tennessee: Church shooting
• Texas: Oil refinery explodes
  El Dorado FLDS ranch raided with over 460 children and adults taken - temple raided
  Hurricane hits Galveston

West and Pacific

• General: Blizzards and heavy snows
• California: Hollywood awards shows unattended due to writer's strike
  School shooting leaves one dead
  Same-sex marriage legalized
• Idaho: House explodes due to propane
• Nevada: 6.0 earthquake hits Wells near Utah border
  Ricin found in Vegas hotel room - linked to Utah resident
• Utah: Pipe factory explodes - none killed
  Woman shoots police officer twice and is shot in Lehi
  20-car pileup in Nephi with over 290 accidents on the same day
  February blizzards strand hundreds
  Church murder in Lehi
  Sur Nay Moo abducted and killed in SLC
  Refinery fire in Woods Cross
  Wall Arch collapses
• Washington: Four police officers murdered

President

Pres: Gordon B. Hinckley died
Pres: Thomas S. Monson

Membership: 13,508,509

Population passes 13 million

Temples

125. Rexburg Idaho
126. Curitiba Brazil
127. Panamá City Panamá
128. Twin Falls Idaho

Other

• Church publishes stand against mistreatment of illegal immigrants
• LDS Presidential Candidate Mitt Romney drops out of race after second-place finish
• Colorado missionaries prosecuted for vandalism of Catholic statuary
• Missionaries withdraw from Russia due to strange visa and passport restrictions
• Criticism against Church continues on stand against gay marriage
• 75,000 African Saints host "Day of Helping Hands"
• Panamanian President Torrijos visits President Monson