101 - Lota V. Smith - Purdy Cemetery - Purdy, OK
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N 34° 42.993 W 097° 36.026
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Lota Smith was born in the year of the first college bowl game, The Rose Bowl.
Waymark Code: WMZ5K1
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/13/2018
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Lota V. Smith was born October 15, 1902 and passed away December 8, 2003. She is buried alongside her husband Edgar, who passed away in 1946. They were wed in 1922.
The headstone is light gray with engraved flowers in the upper corners. Lota's inscription reads:
Lota V. Smith
October 15, 1902
December 8, 2003
* Lota was just learning to walk when the Wright Brothers took off from Kitty Hawk.
* She was 10 when Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated the 28th President.
* World War I began the year Lota was 15.
* She was just 25 when Lindbergh made the first nonstop transatlantic flight.
* Lota was 39 the day the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor
* When she was 50, Puerto Rico became a U.S. Commonwealth nation.
* She was 61 that fateful day when JFK was assassinated.