100 - Bessie Geoffroy - Chapel Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Bessie Geoffroy was born the same year that the Girl Scouts was founded by Juliette Gordon Low in Savannah, Georgia.
Waymark Code: WMJNVR
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2013
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The final resting place of Bessie Geoffroy is at the west side of Chapel Hill Cemetery, near the center of the section.
Text on marker:
Geoffroy
Cecil
1909 - 1999
Bessie
1912 - 2012
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Bessie's time on earth:
1912: First Eagle Scout: Arthur Rose Eldred, the first of three generations to earn this rank in scouting
1922: The highest temperature in recorded history is taken in at 136.4 degrees F (58 degrees C), in El Aziziyah, Libya in the shade.
1932: Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of Anne Morrow Lindbergh and Charles Lindbergh, is kidnapped from the family home near Hopewell, New Jersey.
1942: C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters first published in book format in England.
1952: The Special Forces (United States Army) are created
1962: During a new moon and solar eclipse, an extremely rare grand conjunction of the classical planets occurs (it includes all 5 of the naked-eye planets plus the Sun and Moon), all of them within 16° of one another on the ecliptic.
1972: Volkswagen Beetle sales exceed those of the Ford Model T
1982: The 1982 FIFA World Cup begins in Spain.
1992: President of the United States George H. W. Bush meets with President of Russia Boris Yeltsin at Camp David, where they formally declare that the Cold War is over.
2002: Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom
2012: Lonesome George, the last known individual of the Pinta Island Tortoise subspecies, dies at a Galapagos National Park, thus making the subspecies extinct
Location of Headstone: Chapel Hill Cemetery
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