103 - Iva E. Underwood - Rush Springs, OK
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N 34° 47.174 W 097° 56.835
14S E 596316 N 3849842
Iva Underwood was born the year Las Vegas, Nevada was founded.
Waymark Code: WMJV3Y
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/01/2014
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Iva E. Underwood is laid to rest in Rush Springs Cemetery, alongside her husband Claude, who passed away in 1974. Theirs is a gray granite marker with flowers and leaves engraved. The surname UNDERWOOD is shown on a lighter colored scroll, and each of them have their names and dates inscribed on separate scrolls beneath. A Biblical quotation is written between their names: "...and we shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever."
Iva's inscription reads:
Iva E.
June 4, 1905
Apr. 24, 2009
* Iva was ten the year Alexander Graham Bell placed a telephone call from New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco.
* She was 25 when the first Mickey Mouse comic was published.
* The game Scrabble debuted the year Iva was fifty.
* The year Iva turned 75, the 13th Winter Olympic Games were held at Lake Placid, New York.
* The O.J. Simpson trial was raging when Iva was 90.
* The YouTube video site began on the Internet the year Iva turned 100.