100 - Verda L. Malone - Belew Cemetery - Aubrey, TX
N 33° 20.481 W 096° 58.386
14S E 688628 N 3690964
Verda L. Malone was born in 1898, the year of the Spanish-American War.
Waymark Code: WMHA0Z
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 06/13/2013
Views: 5
Belew Cemetery is located on Belew Road, just west of US 377, north of the main section of Aubrey, TX. Verda's headstone is of red granite, with her birth and death dates framed by a scroll, decorated by flowers. It says:
Verda L.
Malone
Apr. 16, 1898
Oct. 5, 1998
Interesting events in her lifetime include:
1898 - Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, is born.
1908 - Henry Ford produces his first Model T automobile.
1918 - The 1918 flu pandemic rages worldwide as much of the world tries to kill itself during The Great War.
1928 - Eliot Ness begins to lead the Prohibition unit in Chicago.
1938 - Neville Chamberlain declares, "I have returned from Germany with peace in our time."
1948 - Thomas E. Dewey "defeats" Harry S Truman in this year's U.S. presidential elections.
1958 - Pope John XXIII is elected, presumably as a stopgap pope after the long reign of Pius XII.
1968 - Mickey Lolich pitches three complete games and wins all of them as he leads the Detroit Tigers over the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series.
1978 - The Year of the Three Popes: Paul VI, John Paul I, and John Paul II.
1988 - Microsoft releases Windows 2.1
1998 - In Saint Petersburg, Nicholas II of Russia and his family are buried in St. Catherine Chapel, 80 years after they were murdered by Bolsheviks.
Location of Headstone: Belew Cemetery, Aubrey, TX
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