100 - Elizabeth Garbe - Summit View Cemetery - Guthrie, OK
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Elizabeth Garbe was born the same year that the Taj Mahal Palace & Tower hotel in Bombay opened its doors to guests
Waymark Code: WMGQVP
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/02/2013
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The final resting place of Elizabeth Garbe is at the far northwest corner of Summit View Cemetery, directly north of the entrance. Hers is an upright, double marker with a vase on both ends. She shares this monument with her spouse Erick.
Text on marker:
Garbe
Erick W.
Oct. 15, 1893
Dec. 27, 1965
Elizabeth
Nov. 21, 1903
June 22, 2004
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Elizabeth's time on earth:
1903: Colorado Governor James Hamilton Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
1913: Woodrow Wilson succeeds William Howard Taft as President of the United States.
1923: Louis Armstrong makes his first recording, "Chimes Blues," with King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band.
1933: The original film version of King Kong, starring Fay Wray, premieres at Radio City Music Hall and the RKO Roxy Theatre in New York City.
1943: Holocaust: Dr. Josef Mengele begins his service as a medical officer in the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp.
1953: Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay become the first men to reach the summit of Mount Everest
1963: The divorce case of The Duke and Duchess of Argyll causes scandal in the United Kingdom.
1973: The American Indian Movement occupies Wounded Knee, South Dakota.
1983: Ronald Reagan announces that the Global Positioning System (GPS) would be made available for civilian use.
1993: U.S. President Bill Clinton orders a cruise missile attack on Iraqi intelligence headquarters in the Al-Mansur District of Baghdad, in response to an Iraqi plot to assassinate former U.S. President George Bush during his visit to Kuwait in mid-April.
2004: Facebook launches.
Location of Headstone: Summit View Cemetery
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