Corrie and Betsie opened their home to refugees — both Jews and others who were members of the resistance movement — being sought by the Gestapo and its Dutch counterpart. They had plenty of room, although wartime shortages meant that food was scarce. Every non-Jewish Dutch person had received a ration card, the requirement for obtaining weekly food coupons. Through her charitable work, Ten Boom knew many people in Haarlem and remembered a couple who had a disabled daughter.
The father was a civil servant who by then was in charge of the local ration-card office. With so many people using their house, the family built a secret room in case a raid took place. A member of the Dutch resistance designed the hidden room behind a false wall.
Gradually, family and supporters brought building supplies into the house, hiding them in briefcases and rolled-up newspapers. When finished, the secret room was about 30 inches 76 cm deep, the size of a medium wardrobe. A ventilation system allowed for breathing. To enter the secret room, a person had to open a sliding panel in the plastered brick wall under a bottom bookshelf and crawl in on hands and knees. After the war, she devoted her life to spreading the Gospel around the world, even to the Germans, who had killed most of her family.
Born in in a rural area between Fullerton and Anaheim, Fender worked in a radio repair shop before he started making guitars. His Stratocaster struck a chord with music lovers that has reverberated around the world--it is the most used and copied electric guitar in the world. Armed Forces. Martin-Marietta Aircraft on the East Coast still designs and manufactures aircraft after the Martin tradition. Grace, the founding force behind Helen Grace Chocolates, is also buried at Fairhaven.
Born in and orphaned at age 15, Corrigan learned to fly and began working as an airplane mechanic before he was Throughout his life, Corrigan upheld the story of a faulty compass being the reason for having flown in the record-setting wrong direction.
Loma Vista Memorial Park in Fullerton was founded in Like a number of other cemeteries, its older areas are distinguished by large headstones and mature trees, the newer ones by expanses of lawn and flat-to-the-ground markers. Within the newer part of Loma Vista is a walled Vietnamese Buddhist section containing plots. In the center of the burial area, which is surrounded by a low white wall, is a roofed shrine, built in The shrine, of white marble with gold trim, contains a statue of Buddha.
The plots are oriented with the foot of the graves facing east, a burial custom meant to allow the spirit of the deceased to speed more quickly to be with Buddha. In the older Rose Lawn area of the cemetery--behind an old white Spanish-style building--is the grave of Lon Nol, former Cambodian president.
Lon Nol took command of Cambodia in , allowing a brief invasion by U. After his regime fell to the Communists in , he fled to the United States. He died in Fullerton in In order to gain full access to this record, please verify your email by opening the welcome email that we just sent to you. Please verify your email address by opening the welcome email in your email inbox. Check your spam folder if you can't find it there. We have sent another confimation email.
Instructions on setting a new password have been sent to your email address. Facebook Login Sign up the easy way. Setting Primary Image. Corrie Ten Boom Born: Fairhaven Memorial Park E. Fairhaven Ave. Santa Ana, Orange , California.
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