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Feb 20, 2013 · Ann later suffered a nervous breakdown, and in 1964 she and Eugene separated. She died in 1972 at 52 of kidney failure at a Sylacaugan nursing home. Eugene suspects the meteorite and frenzy that...
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Jay Leviton/The LIFE Images Collection via Getty Images/Getty Images. On November 30, 1954, Ann Hodges experienced a rude awakening. As the 34-year-old lay napping cozily under quilts on the sofa ...
Jun 29, 2020 · On November 30, 1954, an Alabama woman, Ann Hodges, was struck by a meteorite while taking a nap. The meteorite crashed through the roof of her home in Sylacauga, Alabama, struck a radio, and then ...
Nov 30, 2019 · Sixty-five years ago, a few days after Thanksgiving, Ann Hodges was snuggled up on the sofa in her Alabama home when a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite crashed through the ceiling and struck the...
Feb 20, 2013 · But that damaging space rock was not the first to shatter a human life. Take the true story of Ann Hodges, the only confirmed person in history to have been hit by a meteorite, 62 years ago this week. On a clear afternoon in Sylacauga, Alabama (see map) in 1954, Ann was napping on her couch, covered by quilts, when a softball-size hunk of black ...
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Nov 30, 2022 · Ann, he said, was also permanently devastated by what happened that November afternoon. “She never did completely recover,” he said. Little information remains about what happened to Ann Hodges in the years following her divorce. But just eight years later, in 1972, she died in a Sylacauga nursing home from kidney failure at the age of 52.
Nov 29, 2022 · Ann Hodges napped on her couch, snuggled under quilts, unaware that people in three states had seen a light streak across the midday sky. Nor did she hear the boom that some people thought, according to newspaper reports, was a plane crash. Suddenly something blew a hole in her roof, ricocheted off a large Philco radio and struck her in the side.
