100 - Ethel Ennis - Cairo Cemetery, Cairo, OK
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The Snowdog
N 34° 35.303 W 096° 06.543
14S E 765158 N 3831197
Ethel Ennis passed away just a few weeks after her 100th birthday.
Waymark Code: WM12DEE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 05/04/2020
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Ethel Ennis is laid to rest in Cairo Cemetery, which is east of Cairo, Oklahoma, having passed away just a few weeks after her 100th birthday and after outliving her husband Rollie by over thirty years. The two share a headstone on the west end of the cemetery.
In the year Ethel was born:
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The Wright Brothers made their first powered flight at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. She would live to see the Apollo moon landings less than seventy years later.
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Cuba leased Guantánamo Bay to the USA "in perpetuity."
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A fellow named Henry Ford raised $28,000 from twelve investors and established an automobile-manufacturing company. A month later, a physician in Chicago purchased the first Model A.
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The first Tour de France bicycle race is held.
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A box of Crayola Crayons contained eight colors and cost a nickel.
You can read more about the year 1903
here.
Location of Headstone: Cairo Cemetery
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