100 - Elsie May Manning - Jones, OK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Elsie Manning is laid to rest in the Jones I.O.O.F. Cemetery located at the corner of E. Wilshire and N. Hiwassee. There are approximately 2100 burials here.

Her headstone is a flat gray granite stone, with a lighter panel in the center which is engraved:

Elsie May Manning
Aug. 17, 1886
Jan. 10, 1987

* Elsie was born the year Apache Chief Geronimo surrendered.
* The Tootsie Roll was introduced the year she was ten.
* She was 21 the year Oklahoma became the 47th State.
* The Boy Scouts was established the year Elsie was thirty.
* Gone With the Wind was published the year Elsie became fifty.
* Elsie was 70 the year "In God We Trust" was authorized as the country's motto.
* Elsie passed away shortly after the space shuttle Challenger exploded after launching, killing all seven astronauts.

Location of Headstone: Jones I.O.O.F. Cemetery

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