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  2. Funeral home - Wikipedia

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    Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media.

  3. Service Corporation International - Wikipedia

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    Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries.

  4. Funeral practices and burial customs in the Philippines

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    A funeral procession in the Philippines, 2009. During the Pre-Hispanic period the early Filipinos believed in a concept of life after death. This belief, which stemmed from indigenous ancestral veneration and was strengthened by strong family and community relations within tribes, prompted the Filipinos to create burial customs to honor the dead through prayers and rituals.

  5. Levi Wright Remembered as 'Pure' and 'Tender' in Touching ...

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    Levi Wright, the 3-year-old son of rodeo star Spencer Wright and Kallie Wright who tragically died on June 2 after he was taken off life support, is being remembered as an "exceptionally ...

  6. Funeral of Martin Luther King Jr. - Wikipedia

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    King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to ...

  7. List of museums with Soap Box Derby racers - Wikipedia

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    It features six Derby cars of local champions from those dates. A film by Richard Eller, which features interviews of Hickory Derby director John Vaughn, as well as past racers, [23] was shown on the opening day, along with sales of a book titled Down the Hill – A Race to Remember that Eller compiled directly from transcripts of those interviews.

  8. Laura Veale - Wikipedia

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    That did not materialise at the hospital, but at the former St George's Convalescent Home, 2 Dragon Parade, Harrogate, where an NHS clinic for children still exists. Under Veale it was a centre for maternity and child welfare. Veale had promoted the scheme for that address so that the Local Government Board gave a grant of £214 16s 5d.

  9. Obituary - Wikipedia

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    Obituary. An obituary ( obit for short) is an article about a recently deceased person. [1] Newspapers often publish obituaries as news articles. Although obituaries tend to focus on positive aspects of the subject's life, this is not always the case. [2] According to Nigel Farndale, the Obituaries Editor of The Times, obituaries ought to be ...

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