103 - Merle Estes - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Merle Estes was born the same year that Thomas Edison received a patent for a two-way telegraph.
Waymark Code: WMEJEW
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2012
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The final resting place of Merle Estes is at the east side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the very far south end of section 11. Hers is large, upright, dark grey monument shared with her spouse L. Lee. Flowers are etched into the two top corners.
Text on headstone:
Estes
L. Lee
Nov. 10, 1891
Feb. 21, 1968
Merle
July 19, 1892
Oct. 2, 1995
I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith.
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Merle's time on earth:
1892: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle publishes The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1902: The Carnegie Institution is founded in Washington, DC with a $10 million gift from Andrew Carnegie
1912: U.S. Marines land in Cuba
1922: In The Bronx, construction begins on Yankee Stadium
1032: A farmers' revolt begins in the Midwestern United States
1942: The United States opens its Office of War Information, a propaganda center
1952: John Bamford, aged 15, rescues victims of a house fire and becomes the youngest person to have been awarded the George Cross
1962: President John F. Kennedy gives the commencement address at the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York
1972: The Godfather is released in cinemas in the United States
1982: In what Indianapolis Motor Speedway historian Donald Davidson and Speedway public address announcer Tom Carnegie later call the greatest moment in the track's history, 1973 winner Gordon Johncock wins his second race over 1979 winner Rick Mears by 0.16 seconds, the closest finish to that date, after Mears draws alongside Johncock with a lap remaining, after erasing a seemingly insurmountable advantage of more than 11 seconds in the final 10 laps
1992: A court in Milwaukee, Wisconsin sentences serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer to life in prison
1995: In Denver, Colorado, Stapleton Airport closes and is replaced by the new Denver International Airport, the largest in the United States
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 11
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