102 - Lena Mae Pitchford - Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, OK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Lena Mae Pitchford lived to the age of one hundred and two. She is interred in Fairlawn Cemetery alongside her husband Jack under this pink granite marker. Jack's horizontal military service marker is nearby. What changes she must have seen during her long life! Some of these were:

1919 - In the USA, the 18th Amendment (Prohibition) is ratified
1921 - First public performance of the illusion "sawing a woman in half."
1931 - Soviet leader Joseph Stalin institutes the first "five year plan."
1941 - The USA enters World War II when Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1951 - In the USA, the 22nd Amendment (limiting presidents to two terms) is ratified
1961 - Alan Shephard is the first U.S. astronaut to reach space, in a sub-orbital flight
1971 - in Britain, the Rolls-Royce company goes bankrupt and is nationalized
1981 - Production of the first DeLorean, in Northern Ireland
1991 - Collapse of the Soviet Union, leaving sixteen nations in its place
2001 - HAL refuses to open the pod bay doors for astronaut Dave Bowman
2011 - Release of the popular on-line game Minecraft
2021 - NASA Ingenuity helicopter is the first powered flight on another world

Location of Headstone: Fairlawn Cemetery, Chickasha, OK

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