102 - Luvenure Dorris - Trice Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Luvenure Dorris was born the same year that Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera The Pirates of Penzance was first performed in Paignton, Devon, England
Waymark Code: WMJC03
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 10/27/2013
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The final resting place of Luvenure Dorris is at the north side of Trice Hill Cemetery, at the north end of the section.
Text on marker:
Our Loving Mother
Luvenure Dorris
Feb. 20, 1879
Nov. 21, 1981
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Luvenure's time on earth:
1879: The Bell Telephone Company and Western Union reach an agreement, in which the former assents to staying out of telegraphy, and the latter to keep out of the telephone business
1889: The Eiffel Tower is inaugurated
1899: Students at the University of California, Berkeley steal the Stanford Axe from Stanford University yelling at leaders following a baseball game, thus establishing the Axe as a symbol of the rivalry between the schools.
1909: Karl Landsteiner develops a system of blood grouping.
1919: The Paris Peace Conference opens at the Palace of Versailles, France
1929: Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace and enters Saint Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican.
1939: Sweden, Norway, and Finland refuse Germany's offer of non-aggression pacts.
1949: The B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II under Captain James Gallagher lands in Fort Worth, Texas, after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight (it was refueled in flight 4 times).
1959: Alaska is admitted as the 49th U.S. state.
1969: John Lennon and Yoko Ono are married at Gibraltar, and proceed to their honeymoon "Bed-In" for peace in Amsterdam.
1981: President Ronald Reagan nominates the first woman, Sandra Day O'Connor, to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Location of Headstone: Trice Hill Cemetery
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