According to her headstone, she was born on March 26, 1904, and died on January 16, 2006. According to her death notice (
visit link) published in the Florida Times-Union, her maiden name was Heard.
Some Memorable Events during her Birth Year (1904):
* January 7 – The distress signal CQD is established, only to be replaced 2 years later by SOS.
* January 12 – Henry Ford sets a new automobile land speed record of 91.37 mph (147.05 km/h).
* February 7 – The Great Baltimore Fire in Baltimore, Maryland, destroys over 1,500 buildings in 30 hours.
* February 17 – Puccini's opera Madama Butterfly, with a background theme of Japan–United States relations, debuts at La Scala in Milan to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia to huge success.
* February 23 – For $10 million, the United States gains control of the Panama Canal Zone.
* March 3 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a political recording of a document, using Thomas Edison's cylinder.
* April 8 - Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times.
* May 21 – The International Federation of Association Football, FIFA, is established.
* October 27 – The first underground line of the New York City Subway opens.
* December 31 – In New York City, the first New Year's Eve celebration is held in Times Square.
Some Memorable Events during her Death Year (2006):
* January 15 – NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet.
* February 3 – An Egyptian passenger ferry carrying more than 1,400 people, sinks in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast.
* February 17 – A massive mudslide occurs in Southern Leyte, Philippines; the official death toll is set at 1,126.
* March 9 – NASA's Cassini-Huygens spacecraft discovers geysers of a liquid substance shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus, signaling a possible presence of water.
* March 10 – NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit.
May – Human Genome Project publishes the last chromosome sequence, in Nature.
* July 18 – The SS Nomadic, the last floating link to Titanic, returns home to a large reception in Belfast.
* August 24 – The International Astronomical Union defines 'planet' at its 26th General Assembly, demoting Pluto to the status of 'dwarf planet' more than 70 years after its discovery.
* October 9 – North Korea claims to have conducted its first-ever nuclear test
* November 2 – No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it was sold privately at $140 million.
* November 5 – Former President of Iraq Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death by hanging by the Iraqi Special Tribunal.
* December 13 – The Chinese River Dolphin or Baiji becomes extinct.