Centenarian Thelma E. Heward Davis is laid to rest at the southwest side of Evanston City Cemetery. She shares a double horizontal headstone with her husband Rudger.
Text on marker:
Davis
Rudger Wilfrid
July 5, 1910
May 11, 2003
Thelma E. Heward
July 18, 1908
Feb. 28, 2014
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Some historical events that occurred during Thelma's time on earth:
1908: The Hoover Company of Canton, Ohio, acquires manufacturing rights to the upright portable vacuum cleaner just invented by James M. Spangler.
1918: Representation of the People Act gives most women over 30 the vote
1928: A medical doctors' strike begins in Vienna.
1938: The Niagara Bridge at Niagara Falls, New York collapses, due to an ice jam.
1948: U.S. President Truman signs Executive Order 9981, ending racial segregation in the United States Armed Forces.
1958: The Nobel Committee announces Russian novelist Boris Pasternak as the winner of the 1958 Prize for Literature.
1968: David Eisenhower, grandson of former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, marries Julie Nixon, the daughter of U.S. President-elect Richard Nixon.
1978: Dick Smith of Dick Smith Foods tows a fake iceberg to Sydney Harbour.
1988: Ronald Reagan decides to tear down the new U.S. Embassy in Moscow because of Soviet listening devices in the building structure.
1998: Google, Inc. is founded in Menlo Park, California, by Stanford University PhD candidates Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
2008: Surgeons at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital perform the first successful operations using bionic eyes, implanting them into two blind patients.
2014: The XXII Olympic Winter Games are held in Sochi, Russia