103 - Ollie Lawrence - Oklahoma City, OK
Posted by: hamquilter
N 35° 32.150 W 097° 25.971
14S E 642072 N 3933596
Ollie Lawrence is laid to rest in Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery.
Waymark Code: WMET6R
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 07/04/2012
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Pilgrim's Rest Cemetery is located on the south side of N.E. 63rd, east of Coltrane. This is an African American cemetery with about 300 burials.
Her headstone is a double marker made of gray granite. The surname is engraved in large lettering at the top center, with engravings of flowers to either side. Ollie's husband, Robert passed away in 1944 at the age of 73. Ollie's inscription reads:
LAWRENCEOllie
Aug. 15, 1880
Feb. 29, 1984
* Ollie was born the year Sousa became the director of the US Marine Corps Band.
* She was ten when Ellis Island opened up as an immigration depot.
* At the turn of the century, in 1900, Ollie was twenty, and the hamburger was created.
* The Mona Lisa was stolen from the Louvre the year Ollie turned thirty.
* Ollie was in her forties during the Roaring Twenties.
* Ollie was 61 when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor.
* When Ollie was 101, Sandra Day O'Connor became the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court.