Evelyn Brunken was born June 7, 1911 and passed away on October 9, 2011. The bronze headstone she shares with her husband does not have a plate showing the year 2011, but cemetery records and those shown on Find a Grave, document her dates. (
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Evelyn graduated from Lahoma High school in 1929, and went on to earn her teaching degree at Central State Teachers College. She taught at several one-room schoolhouses in north central Oklahoma, and in 2011, a few months before her death, she was honored as the oldest surviving teacher from the Turkey Creek school. She was an accomplished quilter and has won many awards for her work.
She was preceded in death by her husband Alvin, who passed away in 1996.
** Evelyn was born a few months after Ronald Reagan
** She was born the year of the terrible Triangle Shirt Factory fire, and the same year that the Camp Fire Girls was established.
** When she was one, the states of New Mexico and Arizona were added to the United States.
** In 1912, just before her first birthday, the Titanic hit an iceberg and sank.
** The United States entered World War I when Evelyn was six.
** When she was ten, insulin was discovered.
** Evelyn was twenty when construction began on the Hoover Dam, and the Empire State Building was opened.
** She was forty when I Love Lucy premiered on TV.
** Born the same year Reagan was born, she was 69 when he was inaugurated the 40th President.