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  2. Metairie Cemetery - Wikipedia

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    Metairie Cemetery. /  29.98583°N 90.11778°W  / 29.98583; -90.11778. Metairie Cemetery is a cemetery [2] in southeastern Louisiana. The name has caused some people to mistakenly presume that the cemetery is located in Metairie, Louisiana, but it is located within the New Orleans city limits, on Metairie Road (and formerly on the banks of ...

  3. Ruth Fertel - Wikipedia

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    She was buried in Lake Lawn Metairie Cemetery, in a lavish mausoleum she and her friend and business partner, Lana Duke, had commissioned in 1995, and which cost over $500,000. The granite building, on a square 27-foot plot, has black columns and stained glass windows featuring angels and the words "It's A Wonderful World". The Fertel-Duke ...

  4. Stewart Enterprises - Wikipedia

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    Stewart Enterprises, Inc. was the second largest provider of funeral and cemetery services in the United States. [1] The company is headquartered in Jefferson, Louisiana and employs nearly 5,400 people in 218 funeral homes and 140 cemeteries in 24 states and Puerto Rico. [2] The company was publicly traded and listed on NASDAQ under the ticker ...

  5. Gerard Louis Frey - Wikipedia

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    Notre Dame Seminary. Motto. Serviam (I will serve) Gerard Louis Frey (May 10, 1914 – August 16, 2007) was an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as the bishop of the Diocese of Savannah in Georgia (1967–1972) and the Diocese of Lafayette in Louisiana (1972–1989).

  6. Gayle Benson - Wikipedia

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    Gayle Marie LaJaunie Bird Benson (born January 26, 1947) is an American businesswoman who is the owner of the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League (NFL) and the New Orleans Pelicans of the National Basketball Association (NBA). She became the principal owner of the Saints and Pelicans following the death of her husband, Tom Benson ...

  7. Memorial Day ceremonies planned for Henderson, Transylvania ...

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    For Henderson County, the 38th annual Memorial Day Service will begin at 11 a.m. at Forest Lawn Funeral Home and Memorial Park, 538 Tracy Grove Road in Hendersonville.

  8. Confederate monuments and memorials - Wikipedia

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    Confederate monument-building has often been part of widespread campaigns to promote and justify Jim Crow laws in the South. According to the American Historical Association (AHA), the erection of Confederate monuments during the early 20th century was "part and parcel of the initiation of legally mandated segregation and widespread disenfranchisement across the South."

  9. A private funeral was held for Matthew Perry on Friday afternoon, with the actor’s “Friends” co-stars in attendance along with other loved ones and family. People reports that Jennifer ...