| Five Hundred EightySeventh in the Famous People (FP) Series - Mary Kay Ash |
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| Coordinates are bogus - Read the Cache Page |
Mary Kay Ash (May 12, 1918 – November 22, 2001) was born Mary Kathlyn Wagner in Hot Wells, Harris County, Texas, the youngest of four children. Her mother, who had studied to be a nurse, worked long hours managing a restaurant. When Mary Kay was two or three, her father was ill with tuberculosis. As a result, it was her responsibility to clean, cook, and care for her father while her mother was at work. She excelled in school, but her family could not afford to send her to college. She married at age seventeen and eventually had three children.
During a time when few married women with families worked outside the home, Ash became an employee of Stanley Home Products in Houston, Texas. She conducted demonstration "parties" at which she sold company products, mostly to homemakers like herself. Energetic and a quick learner, Ash rose at Stanley to unit manager, a post she held from 1938 to 1952.
After Ash's marriage ended in 1952, she took a sales job at World Gift Company in Dallas, Texas. Tired of being passed over for promotions in favor of the men she had trained, she quit. She planned to write a book about her experiences in the work force.
Instead, in 1963, Ash founded her own company (with an investment of five thousand dollars) to sell a skin cream to which she had purchased the manufacturing rights.
Believing it was important to reward hard workers, Ash gave away vacations, jewelry, and pink Cadillacs to her top performers. By 1994 she had given away seven thousand cars valued at $100 million.
Sparkman-Hillcrest Memorial Park Cemetery is opened from 8:00AM to 6:00PM during the winter and 8:00AM to 8:00PM in the summer. The Mausoleum is opened from 8:00AM to 5:00PM daily.
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| Step I |
| Find Mary Kay's tomb inside the mausoleum. |
| Parking |
N32 52.100 |
W096 46.810 |
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| Entrance |
N32 52.105 |
W096 46.842 |
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| Step II |
| What is the first name of the person entombed directly above Mary Kay? |
| Kenneth |
N32 52.120 |
W096 46.923 |
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| Michael |
N32 52.110 |
W096 46.905 |
| George |
N32 52.119 |
W096 46.920 |
| Henry |
N32 52.117 |
W096 46.917 |
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| Step III - Final |
| Go up to the top of the Hill and take a left. Avoid Oscar Meyer. What did you find? |
A. Pink Cadillac
(disguised as a 2 oz. camo spice bottle) |
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B. Lipstick on a pig
(disguised as your favorite politician) |
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