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and hair bands.
• Despite working long hours, she was always willing to greet visitors with a smile, pose for a photo and ask where they were from.
• "She's very detailed but also very visionary. She's an astute business person and she lives this project 24/7. It is her passion," Rollie Noem, Crazy Horse Memorial Foundation chief operating officer, told the AP in 2006. "She's not only kept things together but she's overseen all of the growth that has happened and the expansion and development from all fronts."
• The memorial draws more than a million visitors to the southern Black Hills annually and brings in millions of dollars every year, mainly through admission fees.
• The family has followed Korczak Ziolkowski's admonition to refuse government help and rely on private enterprise. The memorial has received large donations, but there also have been numerous smaller gifts, even from children's lemonade sales.
• Family members won't estimate when the carving will be complete, saying it depends largely on donations, harsh winters that limit how much can be done each year -- and that the project is unlike any other.
• Much of the granite rock has been blown away to create a blank canvass, though the only defined carving is the warrior's head. But it's massive: All four 60-foot heads on Mount Rushmore could fit into it, according to the memorial.
• The memorial is envisioned to eventually show Crazy Horse astride a horse and pointing east to the plains in a carving that will be 641 feet long and 563 feet high -- higher than the Washington Monument and almost twice the size of the Statue of Liberty.
• "You can't just have the dream. You've got to work for that dream," Ruth Ziolkowski said in 2006. "This is a team effort. It wouldn't be here if we didn't have a lot of great people."
• Many of her children and grandchildren are heavily involved in the project and have promised to keep the project going.
• Ziolkowski, who grew up in West Hartford, Connecticut, will be buried in a stone coffin at the base of the mountain next to her husband.
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• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- Family and friends will remember a Vermillion girl on the anniversary of the day she and a friend disappeared in 1971.
• The Press & Dakotan reports a memorial service for Cheryl Miller is scheduled at 11 a.m., Thursday, May 29, at First Baptist Church in Vermillion.

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