100 - Ethel May Dillon - Jones, OK
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N 35° 33.134 W 097° 17.969
14S E 654132 N 3935616
Ethel May Dillon came within four days of being 101.
Waymark Code: WMET1Q
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/03/2012
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Ethel's headstone is located in Jones I.O.O.F. Cemetery, which is located on the northeast corner of W. Wilshire and N. Hiwassee.
Her headstone is a flat gray granite stone with a lighter gray panel on which is engraved:
Ethel May Dillon
July 20, 1893
July 16, 1994
* The year Ethel was born, Beatrix Potter introduced her character, Peter Rabbit.
* The Wizard of Oz premiered in New York City the year Ethel was ten.
* Ethel was twenty in 1913, the year Cracker Jacks first put a prize in their box.
* Native Americans were first proclaimed U.S. citizens the year Ethel turned 31.
* Ethel was 48 when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.
* She was 63 the year the first artificial heart was transplanted into a human.