102 - Ruby L. Wood - Grace Hill Cemetery - Perry, OK
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N 36° 16.630 W 097° 15.958
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Ruby Wood was born the same year that Rudolf Diesel received a patent for the diesel engine.
Waymark Code: WMJDJC
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/04/2013
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The final resting place of Ruby Wood is at the east side of Grace Hill Cemetery, on the far west row of the section. She shares an upright marker with her spouse, William. A small photo of Ruby is shown above her name on the headstone.
Text on marker:
Wood
Mother
Ruby L.
1893 - 1995
Father
William S.
1890 - 1972
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ruby's time on earth:
1893: The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.
1903: Morris and Rose Michtom introduce the first teddy bear in the United States.
1913: The 16th Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, authorizing the Federal government to impose and collect income taxes.
1923: Time Magazine hits newsstands in the United States for the first time.
1933: The Lone Ranger debuts on American radio.
1943: Winston Churchill addresses a joint session of the United States Congress.
1953: Nikita Khrushchev is selected First Secretary of the Soviet Communist Party.
1963: In Paris, six people are sentenced to death for conspiring to assassinate President Charles de Gaulle. De Gaulle pardons five, but the other conspirator, Jean Bastien-Thiry, is executed by firing squad several days later.
1973: U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War ends with the signing of the Paris Peace Accords.
1983: First flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger
1995: Oklahoma City bombing: 168 people, including 8 Federal Marshals and 19 children, are killed at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building. Timothy McVeigh and one of his accomplices, Terry Nichols, set off the bomb.
Location of Headstone: Grace Hill Cemetery
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