102 - Virgil Browne - Rose Hill Burial Park - Oklahoma City, OK
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Headstone at Rose Hill Burial Park for Virgil Browne who died at the age of 102.
Waymark Code: WMC9QY
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 08/13/2011
Views: 4
This centenarian grave for 102 year old Virgin Browne is part of a family plot. It is on the very northeast side of Rose Hill Burial Park, just across the street from Classen Curve.
Text on headstone:
Virgil Browne
Nov. 21, 1877 - Dec. 31, 1979
Some major events that occurred during Virgil's lifetime:
1877: Thomas Edison patents the phonograph
1887: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's first Sherlock Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet
1897: Theodor Herzl launches Zionist movement
1907: Taxis begin running in NYC; World's 1st air force established (US Army); Sir Robert Baden Powell forms Boy Scouts in England
1917: US pays Denmark $25 million for Virgin Islands; Great monarch Michael resigns after 1 day as czar; 10 mil. US men begin registering for draft in WWI; Germany bombs London; Raggedy Ann doll made
1927: Lindbergh begins NY flight in Spirit of St. Louis; Lou Gehrig names AL MVP
1937: Mae West performs skit that gets her banned from NBC radio; Amelia Earhart and Fred Noonan disappear over Pacific Ocean
1947: The Black Dahlia is last seen alive; tennis shoe is introduced
1957: Beatle John Lennon first meets Paul McCartney
1967: Thurgood Marshall: first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1977: First woman Episcopal priest ordained
1978: John Paul I dies unexpectedly after 34 days in office
1979: Three-mile island nuclear power plant accident
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 13
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