In loving memory
Dorothy Silcott
September 5, 1938 – August 15, 1992
Lived 53 years
Meierhoffer Memorial Park · Saint Joseph, Missouri
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1938
Born September 5
1944
Dorothy was 6 when Allied troops landed at Normandy on D-Day
1945
Dorothy was 7 when the war in Europe ended on V-E Day
1951
Dorothy was 13 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1954
Dorothy was 16 when the Supreme Court struck down school segregation
1963
Dorothy was 25 when Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech
1967
Dorothy was 29 when the first Super Bowl was played
1992
Passed away August 15, age 53
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