103 - Virginia M. Waldron - Milton Cemetery - Milton, MA
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N 42° 15.255 W 071° 03.675
19T E 329969 N 4680062
Virginia M. Waldron was a member of the Proparvulis Club.
Waymark Code: WMWY4M
Location: Massachusetts, United States
Date Posted: 10/28/2017
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In Milton, within the Milton Cemetery, is this grave for Virginia M. Waldron, who lived to the age of 103.
The cemetery is located off Centre Street. The side (west) entrance (open at the time of visit), is 100 ft east of the intersection of Centre St and Randolph Avenue.
The grave is located north of the cemetery road, Maple Street.
The marker is made of a light colored granitic stone. The shape is general square with a rounded top. There are two family names. The top name is Sweeney with three names. The next one is Waldron, with the text below,
"1907 Virginia M. 2011"
Findagrave.com has something about this person. Virginia M. "Gia" Waldron was the daughter of Mary and Walter Waldron. She is also the sister of E. Muriel Sweeney (name is engraved without a death year). She worked as a bookeeper and was a member of the Proparvulis Club.
The following has events that happened at her birth and death years.
1907
January 1: Nimrod Expedition - Shackleton set sail from New Zealand to Antarctica.
June 30: A meteorite exploded over Siberia, Russia,
July 13-25: Summer Olympics were held in London, England
2011:
March 11: 9.0 magnitude earthquake hits off Japan. A tsunami is triggered, hitting the Japanese coast.
July 21: The space shuttle Atlantis lands. This ends the US space shuttle program at NASA.
August: Stock markets around the world drop in value significantly due to the fears of contagion of the European sovereign debt crisis and the credit rating downgraded as a result of the debt-ceiling crisis of the United States.
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