In loving memory
Marie Bernice Phelps
March 30, 1916 – October 30, 2015
Lived 99 years
Overland Park, Kansas
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1916
Born March 30
1918
Marie was 2 when the Armistice ended World War I
1920
Marie was 4 when Prohibition began
1939
Marie was 23 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1942
Marie was 26 when Bing Crosby recorded "White Christmas"
1951
Marie was 35 when "I Love Lucy" debuted on CBS
1967
Marie was 51 when the first Super Bowl was played
1977
Marie was 61 when Star Wars opened in theaters
1981
Marie was 65 when MTV began broadcasting
1998
Marie was 82 when "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" was published in America
2007
Marie was 91 when the first iPhone went on sale
2015
Passed away October 30, age 99
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