101 - Mabel E. Steen - Fairlawn Cemetery - Stillwater, OK
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N 36° 06.874 W 097° 02.531
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Mabel Steen was born the same year that the Washington Monument was completed in Washington, D.C., becoming the tallest structure in the world at the time.
Waymark Code: WMJ3A9
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/16/2013
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The final resting place of Mabel Steen is at the north side of Fairlawn Cemetery, near the center of the section. Hers is a box-type marker that she shares with her spouse Clem.
Text on marker:
Steen
Clem E.
1884 - 1968
Mabel E.
1884 - 1985
1 Corinthians 2:9
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mabel's time on earth:
1884: The invention of local anaesthesia by Karl Koller is made public at a medical congress in Heidelberg, Germany.
1894: The International Olympic Committee is founded at the Sorbonne, Paris, at the initiative of Baron Pierre de Coubertin.
1904: 80,000 demonstrators gather in Hyde Park, London, to protest against the importation of Chinese labourers to South Africa by the British government.
1914: Baseball legend Babe Ruth makes his major league debut with the Red Sox.
1924: The Immigration Act of 1924 was signed into law in the United States, including the Asian Exclusion Act.
1934: The Japanese company Fuji Photo Film is established.
1944: The deportation of Hungarian Jews to Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps begins.
1954: RCA manufactures the first color TV set (12-inch screen; price: $1,000)
1964: Ranger 6 is launched by NASA, on a mission to carry television cameras and crash-land on the Moon; In his first State of the Union Address, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson declares a "War on Poverty".
1974: Stephen King publishes Carrie, his first novel under his own name.
1985: In Hollywood, California, the charity single "We Are the World" is recorded by USA for Africa.
Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery
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