106 - Mary Catherine Terrell - Memorial Park Cemetery - Oklahoma City, OK
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Mary Catherine Terrell was born the year of the Discovery Expedition: Robert Falcon Scott sets sail on the RRS Discovery to explore the Ross Sea in Antarctica
Waymark Code: WMCPNE
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2011
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Three members of the Terrell family are laid to rest in front of the Terrell monument on the far northwest corner of Memorial Park Cemetery. Laid to rest next to Mary Catherine is Mark Terrell (1957-1958) and Lee Roy.
Text on headstone:
Mary Catherine Terrell
Feb. 1 1901
Dec. 16 2007
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mary Catherine's almost 107 years on earth:
1901: U.S. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt utters the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
1911: First old-aged home is established
1921: Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.
1931: Al Capone is convicted of tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years
1941: The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills.
1951: Surgeons remove an ovarian cyst from Gertrude Levandowski in a 96-hour long operation in Chicago. She loses almost half of her weight and emerges weighing 140 kg.
1961: Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem
1971: The U.S. voting age is lowered to 18
1981: Iran releases the 52 Americans held for 444 days within minutes of Ronald Reagan succeeding Jimmy Carter as the President of the United States, ending the Iran hostage crisis.
1991: A tropical cyclone hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 138,000 people
2001: Seven times Nascar Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt dies as a consequence of an accident in the last turn of the 2001 Daytona 500
2007: Oklahoma celebrates it's Centennial
Location of Headstone: Memorial Park Cemetery, section 11
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