100 - Lena M. Ghosen - Goleta Cemetery - Goleta, CA
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Lena M. Ghosen was born the same year that the RMS Titanic sank when it ran into an iceberg.
Waymark Code: WM18KW6
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 08/19/2023
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Centenarian Lena M. Ghosen's final resting place is near the center of Goleta Cemetery, at the north end of section 5 South. The cemetery is on the south side of El Camino Real, east of Turnpike Rd.
Lena's obituary, from Legacy.com
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Lena Ghosen Obituary
100; of Goleta; died April 13; rosary 7p.m. Saturday at Welch-Ryce-Haider Funeral Chapels Goleta location; Mass 10a.m. Monday at St. Raphael Catholic Church; interment to follow at Goleta District Cemetery.
Published by Santa Barbara News-Press from Apr. 18 to Apr. 22, 2013.
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Some historical events that occurred during Lena's years of birth and death:
1912:
Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo gives 3,000 cherry trees to be planted in Washington, D.C., to symbolize the friendship between Japan and the United States.
Sinking of the RMS Titanic: RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of more than 1,500 lives. The wreck was not discovered until 1985
2013:
Benedict XVI resigns as pope, becoming the first to do so since Gregory XII in 1415, and the first to do so voluntarily since Celestine V in 1294
Former CIA employee Edward Snowden discloses operations engaged in by a U.S. government mass surveillance program to news publications and flees the country, later being granted temporary asylum in Russia.