101 - Mamie Carpenter Rowden - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.838 W 097° 32.427
14S E 632325 N 3932870
Mamie Rowden was born the same year that Vice President of the United States Theodore Roosevelt uttered the famous phrase, "Speak softly and carry a big stick" at the Minnesota State Fair.
Waymark Code: WMHJ84
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/15/2013
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The final resting place of Mamie Rowden is at the southwest side of Rose Hill Burial Park, near the center of section 14.
Text on marker:
Mamie
Carpenter Rowden
1901 - 2002
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Mamie's time on earth:
1901: Michigan schoolteacher Annie Edson Taylor goes over Niagara Falls in a barrel and survives.
1911: Hiram Bingham rediscovers Machu Picchu in Peru
1921: Dr. Marie Stopes opens the first birth control clinic in London, England.
1931: Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble
1941: The breakfast cereal Cheerios is introduced as CheeriOats by General Mills.
1951: The first NBA All-Star game was played in the Boston Garden.
1961: Ham the Chimp, a 37-pound (17-kg) male, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry United States astronauts into space.
1971: The southern part of Quebec, and especially Montreal, receive 16½" (42 cm) of snow in what becomes known as the Century's Snowstorm (la tempête du siècle).
1981: The first 24-hour video music channel MTV (Music Television) is launched.
1991: A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
2002: Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl is kidnapped in Pakistan, accused of being a CIA agent by his captors.
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, section 14
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