102 - Alberta Duttenhofer - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.905 W 097° 32.134
14S E 632766 N 3933000
Alberta Duttenhofer was born the same year of the first performance of Franz Lehár's operetta The Merry Widow (at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna)
Waymark Code: WMEJEV
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/04/2012
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The final resting place of Alberta Duttenhofer is at the east side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the south end of section 11, just a few feet northwest of a small tree. Hers is a flat, grey stone with flowers etched into the upper left and bottom right corners.
Text on headstone:
Alberta Duttenhofer
Dec. 5, 1905
Oct. 4, 2008
Loved And Remembered
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Alberta's lifetime:
1905: A bomb kills Frank Steunenberg, ex-governor of Idaho; the case leads to a trial against leaders of the Western Federation of Miners
1915: Twenty-One Demands from Japan to China are made
1925: Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio
1935: Hachiko, the loyal dog who was remembered for his loyalty to his owner, even many years after his owners death, passes away on the very same spot he had waited for over nine years
1945: Elbe Day: United States and Soviet troops link up at the Elbe River, cutting Germany in two
1955: First edition of the Guinness Book of Records is published, in London
1965: Bloody Sunday: Some 200 Alabama State Troopers clash with 525 civil rights demonstrators in Selma, Alabama
1975: Space Mountain (Magic Kingdom) opens at Walt Disney World and to this day remains one of the parks most popular attractions
1985: John Hendricks launches the Discovery Channel in the United States
1995: U.S. President Bill Clinton invokes emergency powers, to extend a $20 billion loan to help Mexico avert financial collapse
2005: Four Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers are gunned down in Mayerthorpe, Alberta, Canada. It is deadliest day in Canadian law enforcement in over 120 years
2008: At 19:04:39 UTC, the MESSENGER space probe is at its closest approach during its first flyby of the planet Mercury
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 11
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