In loving memory
Mary Lou Pitman
February 25, 1930 – August 29, 2004
Lived 74 years
Auburn Cemetery · Auburn, IL
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1930
Born February 25
1935
Attended School Community School Litchfield Schools, Litchfield, IL
1939
Mary was 9 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1947
Mary was 17 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier
1948
Graduated Litchfield High School, Litchfield, IL
1948
Attended College Blackburn College
1949
Elementary Teacher Girard, IL
1951
Left Job Girard Grade School
1951
Married to Dwight Ellsworth Pitman
1951
Mary was 21 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1952
Dwight Walter Pitman
1954
Kent Alan Pitman
1957
Attended Auburn United Methodist Church
1959
Frances Jean Pitman
1962
Stacie Lynn Pitman
1964
Monica Rose Pitman
1968
Marsha Kay Pitman
1969
Mary was 39 when the Woodstock music festival opened
1976
Mary was 46 when America celebrated its Bicentennial
1981
Mary was 51 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Mary was 68 when Google was founded
2001
Mary was 71 when Apple introduced the iPod
2004
Passed away August 29, age 74
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