101 - Sara "Peggy" Kissel - Pershing Memorial Cemetery - Limon, CO - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

The final resting place of Sara Kissel is at the east side of Pershing Memorial Cemetery. She shares a double, horizontal marker with her spouse Wayne F. who she met her senior year of high school. The two were married at Sara's family home and were together for 70 years!

Sara's obituary: (visit link)

Text on headstone:

Kissel
Wayne F.
July 17, 1916
Feb. 19, 2006
(married Apr. 2, 1936)
Sara "Peggy"
Aug. 25, 1916
July 8, 2018

Some historical events that occurred during Peggy's time on earth:

1916: In the Dolomites, 100 avalanches bury 18,000 Austrian and Italian soldiers.
1926: The sudden death of popular film actor and sex symbol Rudolph Valentino, at age 31, causes mass grief and hysteria around the world.
1936: Margaret Mitchell's epic historical romance Gone with the Wind is first published in the United States.
1946: Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
1956: Elvis Presley performs "Hound Dog" on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the American television audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1966: United States President Lyndon Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
1976: Patty Hearst is found guilty of armed robbery of a San Francisco bank.
1986: The International Olympic Committee announces that the summer and winter games will separate with the winter games on every even, common year; and the summer games on every leap year starting from 1992.
1996: The 68th Academy Awards, hosted by Whoopi Goldberg, are held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles with Braveheart winning Best Picture.
2006: NASA's Stardust mission successfully ends, the first to return dust from a comet
2018: The United States government enters a federal government shutdown as a result of a dispute over Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals

Location of Headstone: Pershing Memorial Cemetery

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