101 - Kate M. Vaughan Dorris - ExRay Cemetery - Erath County, TX - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Mrs. Dorris shares a modern, gray granite headstone with her husband, James Carl Dorris. The family name, "Dorris", is on both sides, and bands with flowers run from top to bottom on each side on the front. A ribbon below their Books of Life indicates that they were married on May 31, 1914, and their respective books read:

Kate M. Vaughan
Nov. 6, 1898
Jan. 4, 2000

James Carl
July 8, 1890
May 31, 1973

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Significant events that occurred in her lifetime include:

1898 - The Spanish-American War ends in December. Then the real fun begins.
1908 - The first Model T automobile is unveiled in Detroit, MI.
1918 - The 1918 flu pandemic is first observed in Kansas, not Spain.
1928 - Eliot Ness begins to lead a Prohibition unit in Chicago, IL.
1938 - Just a day after Neville Chamberlain declares "Peace for our time", Nazi Germany invades the Sudetenland.
1948 - Mahatma Gandhi is assassinated in New Delhi.
1958 - Pope Pius XII declares Saint Clare the patron saint of television.
1968 - Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy are both assassinated.
1978 - The Great Blizzard of 1978 strikes parts of the Midwest. I went to school.
1988 - After "only" eight years of fighting, the Soviet Union begins to withdraw from Afghanistan.
1998 - Mark McGwire* passes Roger Maris* to become Major League Baseball's single season home run king.
2000 - #4 Wisconsin beats #22 Stanford, 17-9 in the Rose Bowl.

Location of Headstone: ExRay Cemetery

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