100 - Dora Ice Nowell - Rose Hill Cemetery - OKC, OK
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Dora Nowell was born the same year that the United States Senate allowed the Navy to lease Pearl Harbor as a naval base.
Waymark Code: WMG7KG
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 01/25/2013
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The final resting place of Dora Nowell is at the far east side of Rose Hill Burial Park, in section 1. Hers is a flat, light grey stone with roses etched into the left and right sides.
Text on headstone:
In Loving Memory
Dora Ice Nowell
1887 - 1987
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Dora's time on earth:
1887: Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show opens in London
1897: Writer Jack London sails to join the Klondike Gold Rush where he will write his first successful stories.
1907: The passenger liner RMS Lusitania makes its maiden voyage from Liverpool, England to New York City.
1917: Mata Hari is arrested for spying.
1927: The Mount Rushmore Park is rededicated. President Calvin Coolidge promises national funding for the proposed carving of the Presidential figures.
1937: In Crystal City, Texas, spinach growers erect a statue of the cartoon character Popeye.
1947: John C. Hennessy, Jr., brings the first Volkswagen Beetle to the United States. He purchased the 1946 VW from the U.S. Army Post Exchange in Frankfurt, Germany, while serving in the U.S. Army. The Beetle was shipped from Bremerhaven, arriving in New York
1957: NBC introduces an animated version of its famous "living color" peacock logo
1967: All You Need Is Love is released in the UK.
1977: The world's first personal all-in-one computer (keyboard/screen/tape storage), the Commodore PET, is demonstrated at the Consumer Electronics Show in Chicago
1987: Canada introduces a one dollar coin, nicknamed the "Loonie".
(source: wikipedia)
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 1
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