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2. West Laurel Hill Cemetery - Wikipedia

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   August 14, 1992. West Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1869, is 200 acres (81 hectares) in size, and contains the burials of many notable people. It is affiliated with Laurel Hill Cemetery in nearby Philadelphia. The cemetery property is an accredited arboretum and has an ...

3. Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home - Wikipedia

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   April 24, 1901 (1901-04-24) Website. wilhelmportlandmemorial .com. Wilhelm's Portland Memorial Funeral Home, Mausoleum and Crematory is a funerary establishment in the Sellwood neighborhood of southeast Portland, Oregon, United States. Opened in 1901 as the Portland Crematorium, it is the first and oldest crematorium west of the Mississippi ...

4. Mortlake Crematorium - Wikipedia

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   1400834. Mortlake Crematorium is a crematorium in Kew, [1] near its boundary with Mortlake, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. It opened in 1939, next to Mortlake Cemetery . The crematorium serves the boroughs of Ealing, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hounslow and Richmond upon Thames in the west and south-west of London.

5. City of London Cemetery and Crematorium - Wikipedia

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   A new crematorium was built in 1971 to a design by E. G. Chandler. It is a modern, symmetrical building containing two chapels and a basement crematory. The cemetery has been in continuous use since its opening. Many of the churches that were demolished in London had their dead reinterred in the City of London Cemetery (see § Reburial and ...

6. Killing of Leonard Cure - Wikipedia

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   Killing of Leonard Cure. On October 16, 2023, Leonard Cure, a 53-year-old black American man, was fatally shot during a physical struggle by a sheriff's deputy in Camden County, Georgia, after being pulled over for speeding. Cure had been exonerated in 2020 after being wrongfully convicted of armed robbery in Florida in 2003.

7. Roman funerary practices - Wikipedia

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   Roman funerary practices include the Ancient Romans ' religious rituals concerning funerals, cremations, and burials. They were part of time-hallowed tradition ( Latin: mos maiorum ), the unwritten code from which Romans derived their social norms. [1] Elite funeral rites, especially processions and public eulogies, gave the family opportunity ...

8. Funeral home - Wikipedia

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   A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service. Direct cremation consists of the funeral home receiving the body, preparing it for the crematory and filing the necessary legal paperwork. Direct ...

9. Tri-City Herald death notices April 17-18, 2024 - AOL

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   Smith Funeral Home, Sunnyside, is in charge of arrangements. Gervadine Hughes. Gervadine Hughes, 94, of Pasco, died April 16 in Pasco. She was born in Fairfield, N.M., and lived in Pasco for 55 years.