100 - Flossie Wyrick - Auburn Cemetery - Near Maypearl, TX
N 32° 18.384 W 097° 04.361
14S E 681452 N 3576029
Flossie Wyrick was born the year that Cuba gained its independence from the United States.
Waymark Code: WMGPJW
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 03/28/2013
Views: 3
Flossie's gray headstone is at the base of a tree near the northeast corner of Auburn Cemetery. Its face is dominated by a large heart, with the inscription, "Flossie Wyrick Apr. 23, 1902 Dec. 6, 2002 In loving memory." A ribbon and flowers provide detail around the heart.
Auburn Cemetery is located by following FM 916 southwest from Maypearl, and traveling about 3.8 miles, before turning on Auburn Road and following it .4 mile to the cemetery.
Interesting events that occurred during her lifetime:
1902 - Edward VII is crowned King of the United Kingdom.
1912 - RMS Titanic strikes an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean and sinks with the loss of 1517 lives.
1922 - Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV as the 259th pope.
1932 - Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide victory in this year's presidential election.
1942 - Anne Frank's family goes into hiding in an attic above her father's office in an Amsterdam warehouse.
1952 - Anne Frank's diary, The Diary of a Young Girl, is published.
1962 - Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro. Later that year, the Cuban Missile Crisis takes place.
1972 - Francis Ford Coppola's "The Godfather" is released.
1982 - The first U.S. execution by lethal injection is carried out in Texas.
1992 - Two skeletons excavated in Yekaterinburg are identified as Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Tsarina Alexandra.
2002 - Golden Jubilee of Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom upon the 50th anniversary of George VI's death in 1952.
Location of Headstone: Auburn Cemetery
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