101 - Bertha Bostoen - Zonnebeke, Belgium - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

In the Zonnebeke cemetery you will find Bertha's grave in the "second"/newer area (coming from the southern entrance). You will find he grave on the left side.
The grave is a nice elegant simple grave with the text

Gaston Blomme
1908-1987
Bertha Bostoen
1916-2017

In the year 1916 (the year Bertha was born) lots of things happened such as:

"The 1916 Summer Olympics are cancelled in Berlin, Germany.
Food is rationed in Germany.
Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale is collected posthumously and published.
Oxycodone, a narcotic painkiller closely related to codeine, is first synthesized in Germany."
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In the year 2017 (the year Bertha died):
- Trump became president of the USA
- Russia is accused of meddling in the US election
- Patriots win the SuperBowl
- A solar eclipse in august

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Location of Headstone: Zonnebeke Cemetery

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