102 - Verna A. Osborne - Oklahoma City, OK
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N 35° 36.387 W 097° 29.477
14S E 636654 N 3941347
Verna Osborne was born the same year that The United States Army Signal Corp Division purchased the world's first military airplane, a Wright Military Flyer, from the Wright Brothers.
Waymark Code: WMJ485
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/21/2013
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The final resting place of Verna Osborne is near the center of Memorial Park Cemetery, at the base of a tree in the southeast corner of section 5.
Text on marker:
Osborne
Married Dec. 20, 1932
Verna A.
1909 - 2011
John S.
1910 - 1994
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Verna's time on earth:
1909: King Albert I of Belgium succeeds his uncle, Leopold II, on the throne.
1919: Romania annexes Transylvania.
1929: The longest bridge in the world at this time, the San Francisco Bay Toll-Bridge, opens.
1939: Hewlett-Packard is founded as an electronics company in Palo Alto, California.
1949: Rationing of clothes ends in Britain.
1959: The Barbie doll debuts.
1969: The lunar module Eagle lands on the lunar surface. An estimated 500 million people worldwide watch in awe as Neil Armstrong takes his historic first steps on the Moon at 10:56 pm ET.
1979: Convicted bank robber Patty Hearst is released from prison after her sentence is commuted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter.
1989: The British children's television show, Thomas and Friends, begins airing in the U.S.
1999: Nunavut, an Inuit homeland, is created from the eastern portion of the Northwest Territories to become Canada's third territory.
2011: An estimated two billion people watch the wedding of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Catherine Middleton at Westminster Abbey in London
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 5
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