101 - Katharine Dromgold - Resurrection Memorial - Oklahoma City, OK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Katharine Dromgold is laid to rest in Resurrection Memorial Cemetery, a large Catholic cemetery on the north side of Oklahoma City, which has over 11,600 gravesites.

Her headstone, like most in this cemetery, is bronze. It rests on a slab of marble, is narrow and shaped like a scroll at the ends. Her inscription reads:

DROMGOLD
Katharine Jones
Mar. 29, 1908
Jan. 1, 2009

* The first passenger flight in an airplane occurred the year Katharine was born.
* Trick rider Annie Oakley shot 100 clay targets in a row for a record when Katharine was 14.
* The first Xerox copying machine was demonstration when Katharine was thirty.
* The tennis shoe was introduced when Katharine was 39.
* In 1959, the Barbie doll went on the market, when Katharine was 51.
* When Katharine was 70, Pope John Paul I died unexpectedly after 34 days in office.
* The first Mars Polar Lander was launched when Katharine was 91.
* She passed away on New Year's Day in 2009 at the age of 101.

Location of Headstone: Resurrection Memorial Cemetery

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