104 - Irene Martha Butler - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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Irene Butler was born the same year that the Treaty of Paris was signed, ending the Spanish-American War.
Waymark Code: WMG9GY
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 02/02/2013
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The final resting place of Irene Butler is at the far northeast corner of Rose Hill Burial Park, just south of the main entrance drive and west of the mausoleum. Hers is a horizontal marker with the following text:
Wife
Irene Martha Butler
Sept. 19, 1898 Nov. 8, 2002
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Irene's time on earth:
1898: Marie and Pierre Curie announce discovery of a substance they call radium
1908: Robert Peary sets sail for the North Pole.
1918: The small town of Codell, Kansas, is hit for the third year in a row on the same date by a tornado.
1928: A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
1938: Winston Churchill warns of grave consequences to European security if Czechoslovakia is partitioned. The same day, Soviet Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov makes a similar statement in the League of Nations.
1948: The musical Kiss Me, Kate opens for the first of 1,077 performances
1958: A U.S. B-47 bomber accidentally drops an atom bomb on Mars Bluff, South Carolina. Without a fissile warhead, its conventional explosives destroy a house and injure several people.
1968: Pierre Trudeau becomes Canada's 15th Prime Minister.
1978: Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
1988: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
1998: NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water in polar craters to support a human colony and rocket fueling station.
2002: A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, Rose Lawn section
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