101 - Eron Garcia - El Reno Cemetery - El Reno, OK
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Eron Garcia was born the same year that the 1900 Galveston hurricane killed about 8,000 people.
Waymark Code: WMHAH0
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 06/15/2013
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The final resting place of Eron Garcia is at the center of El Reno Cemetery, in the middle of the section that is west of the large sculpture. His is a horizontal marker with a train etched into the bottom right corner
Text on marker:
Loving Brother
Eron Garcia
June 30, 1900
Nov. 7, 2001
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Eron's time on earth:
1900: Milton S. Hershey introduces the milk chocolate Hershey bar in the United States.
1910: George V becomes King of the United Kingdom upon the death of his father, Edward VII.
1920: Adolf Hitler presents his National Socialist program in Munich.
1930: Hostess Twinkies are invented.
1940: Truth or Consequences debuts on NBC Radio.
1950: Great Brinks Robbery: Eleven thieves steal more than $2 million from the Brink's armored car company headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
1960: South Korean students hold a nationwide pro-democracy protest against President Syngman Rhee. Thus eventually leads him to resign from that office.
1970: American President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, banning cigarette television advertisements in the United States with effect from January 1, 1971
1980: Six United States diplomats, posing as Canadians, manage to escape from Tehran, Iran as they board a flight to Zürich, Switzerland.
1990: U.S. President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.
2001: The Congressional Budget Office of the United States forecasts a $5,600,000,000,000 budget surplus for the next ten years
Location of Headstone: El Reno Cemetery
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