100 - Virginia Hogeboom - Graceland Park Cemetery - Sioux City, IA
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Virginia Hogeboom is laid to rest at Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City
Waymark Code: WM11JBQ
Location: Iowa, United States
Date Posted: 10/31/2019
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The final resting place of centenarian Virginia R. Hogeboom is at the northeast corner of Graceland Park Cemetery in Sioux City. Her single marker is next to her spouse, Charles.
Text on marker:
Virginia R. Hogeboom
Loving Wife
Nov 29, 1916/Jun 3, 2017
Virginia's obituary:
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Some historical events that occurred during Virginia's time on earth:
1916: "White Friday": In the Dolomites, 100 avalanches bury 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
1926: DeFord Bailey is the first African-American to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry.
1936: The first superhero to wear a skin-tight costume and mask, The Phantom, makes his first appearance in U.S. newspapers.
1946: The 18th Academy Awards Ceremony is held. Best Picture goes to The Lost Weekend.
1956: American actress Grace Kelly marries Rainier III, Prince of Monaco.
1966: The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon.
1976: The Great Clock of Westminster (or Big Ben) suffers internal damage and stops running for over 9 months.
1986: A mishandled safety test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Pripyat, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union "killed at least 4,056 people and damaged almost $7 billion of property"
1996: Dolly the sheep, the first mammal to be successfully cloned from an adult cell, is born at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian, Scotland, UK.
2006: No. 5, 1948 by Jackson Pollock becomes the most expensive painting after it is sold privately for $140 million.
2017: SpaceX conducts the world's first reflight of an orbital class rocket.