105 - Frances Stewart Witt - Oklahoma City, OK
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Frances Stewart Witt was born in 1902, the same year that the Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie.
Waymark Code: WMCQV2
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/04/2011
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The final resting place of Frances Stewart Witt is at the very far north side of Memorial Park Cemetery. Entrance into Memorial Park is only on the west side, off of Kelley Ave. This is a shared marker, with Maria Segaud Anderson (1901-1987). A long vine winds along the middle of these two names.
Text on headstone:
Frances Stewart
Witt
1902 - 2007
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Frances' 105 years on earth:
1902: In Martinique, Mount Pelée erupts for the second time this year, killing over 30,000 in May, and destroying the town of Morne-Rouge causing 1000 deaths in August
1912: The Girl Scouts of the USA are founded.
1922: In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium
1932: The first Purple Heart was awarded
1942: FDR orders internment and detention of all west coast Japanese Americans
1952: Elizabeth II is proclaimed Queen of the United Kingdom at St. James's Palace, London, England after the death of George VI
1962: First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy takes television viewers on a tour of the White House.
1972: Apollo 17 lands on the Moon.
1982: The Commodore 64 8-bit home computer is introduced by Commodore International at the Winter Consumer Electronics Show.
1992: A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial and cannibal killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison. He is later murdered by a fellow inmate.
2002: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan
2007: Vladimir Putin, President of Russia, is announced as Time magazine's 2007 Person of the Year
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 6
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