100 - Rebecca Marie Morrison - Union City, OK - Headstones of Centenarians on Waymarking.com

Rebecca Marie Morrison is interred by her husband Earl in Union City Cemetery, west of Union City, Oklahoma. She was born in Sooner Corner (near Tuttle, Oklahoma) in 1909, the year in which construction of RMS Titanic began, and passed away in 2010, three months after her 100th birthday. Events that Rebecca witnessed during her long life include:

1910 - Age 1 - first public radio broadcast, of live operas from New York City
1919 - Age 10 - The Paris Peace Conference meets to settle WWI
1929 - Age 20 - The Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1939 - Age 30 - Germany and Russia invade Poland; WWII begins
1949 - Age 40 - Kashmir divided between India and Pakistan
1959 - Age 50 - "The Day The Music Died"
1969 - Age 60 - First space walk between two docked spacecraft
1979 - Age 70 - Ayatollah Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution
1989 - Age 80 - First commercial Internet service
1999 - Age 90 - An F5 tornado devastates south Oklahoma City and Moore
2009 - Age 100 - Outbreak of the H1N1 "swine flu" pandemic

Location of Headstone: Union City Cemetery

Visit Instructions:
Upload a photo of the headstone and, if possible, the surrounding area.(nothing should be placed on grave stone) If you can provide more information about the waymark than what is currently provided, please include that information in your visit log.

Recent Visits/Logs:

There are no logs for this waymark yet.