103 - Dora (Doris) A. Havens - Oklahoma City, OK
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Dora A. Havens was born the same year that the Tower Bridge in London opened for traffic
Waymark Code: WMDX3D
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 03/04/2012
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The final resting place of Dora A. Havens is at Memorial Park Cemetery, in the third row west of the Section 52 concrete marker at the south end. Hers is a very light colored reddish brown headstone, with her name and years inscribed into a bible, and flowers etched into the top left and bottom right corners.
Dora is laid to rest next to: (Daddy) Lloyd R. Havens
May 24, 1892 - June 5, 1970
Dora's headstone reads:
Mama
Dora (Doris) A. Havens
Mar. 17, 1894 - Nov. 30, 1997
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Dora's time on earth:
1894: Russian Tsar Alexander III is succeeded by his son Nicholas II
1904: The third Modern Olympic Games opens in St. Louis, Missouri, United States as part of the World's Fair
1914: Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox
1924: J. Edgar Hoover is appointed head of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
1934: A strong 2-day dust storm removes massive amounts of Great Plains topsoil in one of the worst dust storms of the Dust Bowl
1944: German Field Marshal Erwin Rommel commits suicide rather than face execution for allegedly conspiring against Adolf Hitler
1954: Marilyn Monroe marries baseball player Joe DiMaggio
1964: In a notorious incident, 38 of her neighbors in Queens, New York City fail to respond to the cries of Kitty Genovese, 28, as she is being stabbed to death
1974: People magazine's first issue released. Mia Farrow is on the cover
1984: Vanessa Lynn Williams becomes the first Miss America to resign when she surrenders her crown, after nude photos of her appear in Penthouse magazine. She goes on to become a successful singer and actress
1997: In Des Moines, Iowa, Bobbi McCaughey gives birth to septuplets in the second known case where all 7 babies are born alive, and the first in which all survive infancy
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 52
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