100 - Lela Arlene Stafford - Summit View Cemetery - Guthrie, OK
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Lela Stafford was born the same year that the first Nobel Prize ceremony is held in Stockholm on the fifth anniversary of Alfred Nobel's death.
Waymark Code: WMGW0P
Location: Oklahoma, United States
Date Posted: 04/14/2013
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The final resting place of Lela Stafford is at the southeast corner of Summit View Cemetery. Hers is an upright, double marker shared with her spouse Joseph.
Text on marker:
Stafford
Joseph Dewey
July 21, 1898
July 15, 1963
Lela Arlene
Dec. 10, 1901
June 6, 2002
Some worldwide events and accomplishments that occurred during Lela's time on earth:
1901: The okapi is observed for the first time (previously known only to local natives).
1911: Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17 when the rebel leader "Red" López is drunk.
1921: In Britain, labour unions for mining, railway and transportation workers call for a strike; the government threatens to call in the army.
1931: The original film version of Dracula with Bela Lugosi is released.
1941: The United Service Organization (USO) is created to entertain American troops
1951: I Love Lucy makes its television debut on CBS.
1961: President John F. Kennedy delivers the first live presidential news conference. In it, he announces that the Soviet Union has freed the 2 surviving crewmen of a USAF RB-47 reconnaissance plane shot down by Soviet flyers over the Barents Sea July 1, 1960
1971: In Los Angeles, Charles Manson and three female "Family" members are found guilty of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders.
1981: Luke and Laura marry on the U.S. soap opera General Hospital; it is the highest-rated hour in daytime television history.
1991: A Michigan court bars Dr. Jack Kevorkian from assisting in suicides.
2002: A barge collides with the Interstate 40 bridge across the Arkansas River in eastern Oklahoma, killing 14.
Location of Headstone: Summit View Cemetery
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