100 - Daisy Ellen Alger - Union City, OK
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N 35° 25.263 W 097° 54.160
14S E 599619 N 3920290
The United States annexed Hawaii shortly after Daisy was born.
Waymark Code: WMJF6Z
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 11/10/2013
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Daisy Ellen Alger is laid to rest in Pleasant View Cemetery. This is an open, treeless cemetery northeast of Union City, with about 100 burials.
Her headstone is a vertical gray granite stone with a curved top. Flowers are engraved in the upper corners. The surname in large letters is engraved in the center. There are two lighter colored panels, one of which reads:
Daisy Ellen
Apr. 10, 1900
Oct. 15, 2000
Sharing this headstone is Ada Elizabeth Alger (1895-1975). According to Find a Grave, she does not appear to be a sister of Daisy.
* The year Daisy was born, Ferdinand von Zeppelin's airship invention was first flown.
* When she was ten, the Krazy Kat comic strip debuted in the NY Journal.
* Daisy was thirty, the year the planet Pluto was discovered.
* The year she was fifty, President Harry Truman OK'd the building of the first hydrogen bomb.
* Charleton Heston won the Oscar for Ben-Hur when Daisy was sixty.
* The year she turned eighty, the U.S. boycotted the Summer Olympics in Moscow.
* A few days before Daisy passed, the 100th Space Shuttle mission was flown. What a lot she saw in her lifetime!