100 - Gladys Evans Schmidt - Watts Chapel Cemetery - Johnson County, TX
N 32° 18.863 W 097° 15.965
14S E 663226 N 3576603
Gladys (Evans) Schmidt was born the year that The Great War ended.
Waymark Code: WM10308
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 02/15/2019
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Mrs. Schmidt's red granite headstone has a church window with a flower, and her personal information reads:
Gladys Evans
Schmidt
Aug. 28, 1918
Jan. 3, 2019
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Significant events that occurred in her lifetime include:
1918 - Corporal Alvin York enters the history books for a feat of bravery that is later embellished by the entertainment industry.
1928 - Convicted murderer Ruth Snyder is executed in the electric chair, and a photo of the procedure makes it into the newspapers.
1938 - The Anschluss takes place, with Nazi Germany annexing Austria.
1948 - The 33 1/3 vinyl phonographic record is introduced.
1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.
1968 - The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus is filmed but The Who are the real stars of the event.
1978 - "WKRP in Cincinnati" premieres. "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly."
1988 - Osama bin Laden forms Al-Qaeda.
1998 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison and Supermaxed for planning the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.
2008 - The remains of Tsar Nicholas II and most of his family are identified through DNA analysis.
2018 - Basque separatist group, ETA (Euskadi Ta Askatasuna), shuts down its operations and puts down its weapons.
2019 - Daryl Dragon dies...love didn't keep them together after all.
Location of Headstone: Watts Chapel Cemetery
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