100 - Ralph Cecil Vandiver - Rose Hill Burial Park - OKC, OK
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N 35° 31.991 W 097° 32.273
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Ralph Vandiver was born the same year that Italy declared war on Ottoman Empire.
Waymark Code: WMJ66Q
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 09/30/2013
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The final resting place of Ralph Vandiver is at the north side of Rose Hill Burial Park, at the east side of the section. His is an upright marker shared with his spouse Charlotte.
Text on marker:
Vandiver
Charlotte Arlene
Apr. 23, 1911
Jan. 28, 2009
Ralph Cecil
Aug. 4, 1911
June 11, 2012
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Ralph's time on earth:
1911: The theft of the Mona Lisa is discovered in the Louvre.
1921: Warren G. Harding is inaugurated as the 29th President of the United States.
1931: Albert Einstein begins doing research at the California Institute of Technology, along with astronomer Edwin Hubble.
1941: In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1951: Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test Site begins with a 1-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat, northwest of Las Vegas, Nevada.
1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe.
1971: Satchel Paige becomes the first Negro League player to become voted into the Baseball Hall of Fame from the Negro League
1981: The first American test-tube baby, Elizabeth Jordan Carr, is born in Norfolk, Virginia.
1991: Boris Yeltsin begins his 5-year term as the first elected president of Russia.
2001: Sherpa Temba Tsheri, 16, becomes the youngest person to summit Mount Everest
2012: The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth
Location of Headstone: Rose Hill Burial Park, Devotion section
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