102 - Nola Bringle Barnes - Humboldt Cemetery - Campbell, TX
N 33° 10.727 W 095° 59.061
15S E 221727 N 3675075
Nola (Bringle) Barnes was born in 1906, the year that an earthquake rocked San Francisco, leaving many homeless and over three thousand dead.
Waymark Code: WMWWTQ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 10/24/2017
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Mrs. Barnes and her husband have separate gray, granite headstones that are joined by a base. The family name, "Barnes", is in black between them, along with a vase, which has "Married Oct. 6, 1923" below it. Their personal information appears on each headstone:
Henry M.
June 30, 1903
Apr. 11, 1992
Nola Bringle
Aug. 8, 1906
May 11, 2009
Significant events that occurred in her lifetime:
1906 - Artist Paul Cézanne dies in France.
1916 - Gustav Holst composes "The Planets", one of QDV's favorite pieces of work.
1926 - Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev are downgraded in position as Josef Stalin continues his ascension to power in the Soviet Union.
1936 - Jesse Owens sticks it to "racial superiority" in the Olympic Games in Berlin.
1946 - Tupperware is sold for the first time.
1956 - IBM invents the hard drive.
1966 - "Batman" debuts on ABC and runs for three seasons.
1976 - The ABA and NBA merge: Four ABA teams are still playing today.
1986 - After much hype, Geraldo Rivera opens up Al Capone's vault and finds an empty bottle.
1996 - Apple Computer purchases Steve Jobs's NeXT, laying the groundwork for a new Macintosh operating system.
2006 - Former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, is hanged in December.
2009 - "Friday the 13th" gets a reboot, and Jason walks among us again.
Location of Headstone: Humboldt Cemetery
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