101- Sarah A. Spigener - Arcadia, OK
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N 35° 42.691 W 097° 17.535
14S E 654481 N 3953296
Sarah Spigener's headstone is located in Spigner Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMEKHW
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/09/2012
Views: 3
Spigener is located in Arcadia on the north side of Sorghum Mill Road, one-half mile east of Hiwassee Road. There is no parking on the south side of the cemetery. You must turn in on a gravel road east of the cemetery, and drive north to the area.
This headstone is a flat, pink granite stone which has the surname SPIGENER is large letters at the top, with Sarah and her husband Willie's inscriptions beneath. Willie passed away in 1975, and the engraving shows that they were married 50 years.
Sarah was born September 19, 1904 (2-1/2 years before Oklahoma statehood). She passed away November 5, 2005.
** The year Sarah was born, the Ice Cream Cone made its debut.
** She was four years old when the first passenger flight in an airplane took place.
** The Panama Canal opened the year Sarah was ten.
** George Burns married Gracie Allen the year Sarah was 22.
** Sarah was 34 years old that Halloween when Orson Welles panicked the nation with his broadcast of "War of the Worlds."
** She was 64 the year Martin Luther King Jr. was slain in Memphis.
** Sarah was 76 when the play "Oklahoma" closed at the Palace Theater in NY City after 301 performances.
** She didn't live to see the introduction of the very popular iPhone.
Location of Headstone: Spigner Cemetery, Arcadia, OK
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