100 - Lena Herrmann - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 34.337 W 097° 31.929
14S E 633009 N 3937501
Lena Herrmann is laid to rest in Alta Vue Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMEWWH
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2012
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Alta Vue Cemetery is a well kept area on the west side of Western Avenue, between Britton and Hefner. Lena Herrmann's headstone has a rough-cut top and sides and is a double marker. Their surname is at the top in a lighter-colored panel. Lena and her husband each are inscribed in a engraving of an open book. Flowers and leaves are engraved in the upper corners.
The inscription reads:
HERMANNLena
1887 - 1987
* Lena was born the same year Anne Sullivan began teaching 6 yr. old blind-deaf Helen Keller.
* She was two when the Oklahoma Land Run occurred.
* When Lena was ten, the NY Sun ran their editorial "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus."
* The year Oklahoma became a state, Lena was twenty.
* She was 28 the year the Girl Scouts was established.
* Amelia Earhart disappeared over the Pacific Ocean the same year Lena turned fifty.
* Dr. Jonas Salk announced he found a vaccine to prevent Polio the year Lena turned 53.
* John Hinkley was found not guilty by reason of insanity in the shooting of Pres. Ronald Reagan the year Lena turned 95.