100 - Helen D. Anderson Goeckner - Merrill, OR
Posted by: Groundspeak Premium Member NW_history_buff
N 42° 02.482 W 121° 38.412
10T E 612543 N 4655263
This centenarian's grave is located in Merrill IOOF Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMRYPN
Location: Oregon, United States
Date Posted: 08/23/2016
Published By:Groundspeak Premium Member elyob
Views: 1

Helen passed away one day shy of her 101st birthday. She was born on October 15, 1910 and passed away on October 14, 2011. I could find no information for her online. She is one of two centenarians buried in Merrill I.O.O.F. Cemetery.

Some historical events that occurred on Helen's birth year of 1910:

Jan 10th - 1st international air meet in US held, in LA

Feb 8th - The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce

Feb 15th - The Boy Scouts of America founded

Feb 19th - Typhoid Mary [Mary Mallon] is freed from her first periods of forced isolation and goes on to cause several further outbreaks of typhoid in the New York area

Feb 23rd - 1st radio contest held (Philadelphia)

Mar 1st - 118 die when three passenger trains buried at Steven's Pass in Cascade Range by the worst snow slide in US history

Mar 3rd - Rockefeller Foundation: John D. Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his businesses so that he can be devoted full time to being a philanthropist

Mar 8th - Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris becomes the 1st ever licensed female pilot

Apr 3rd - Highest mountain in North America, Alaska's Mt McKinley claimed to have been 1st climbed by 4 local men

Apr 14th - President Taft begins tradition of throwing out ball on opening day

May 11th - Montana's Glacier National Park forms

Jun 2nd - Pygmies discovered in Dutch New Guinea

Jun 19th - Father's Day celebrated for 1st time (Spokane, Wash)

Jun 22nd - 1st airship with passengers sets afloat-Zeppelin Deutscheland

Jun 25th - Mann Act passed (no women across state lines for immoral purposes)

Jul 9th - Walter Brookins becomes 1st to pilot an airplane to 1 mile altitude

Aug 8th - The US Army installs the first tricycle landing gear on the Army's Wright Flyer

Aug 9th - Alva Fisher patents electric washing machine

Aug 25th - Yellow Cab is founded

Sep 11th - 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood)

Sep 12th - United States' 1st female cop (on record), Alice Stebbins Wells, appointed (LAPD)

Sep 27th - 1st test flight of a twin-engined airplane (France)

Oct 2nd - 1st 2 aircraft collision (Milan Italy)

Oct 23rd - Blanche Scott became first woman solo a public airplane flight

Nov 7th - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse

Nov 12th - 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon

Nov 14th - 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Va

Nov 27th - NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal

Nov 29th - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

Dec 3rd - Neon lights first publicly displayed (Paris Auto Show)

Dec 19th - 1st US city ordinance requiring white & black residential areas (Balt)

Dec 22nd - US postal savings stamps 1st issued

Dec 31st - US tobacco industry produced 9 billion cigarettes in 1910

Location of Headstone: Merrill IOOF Cemetery

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