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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Calvary Cemetery in San Francisco was consecrated in 1860 by the first Archbishop of San Francisco, Joseph Sadoc Alemany. [ 3 ] : 27 Nearly thirty years later, Cavalry had nearly reached its capacity and Alemany's successor, Patrick William Riordan , purchased 179 acres (72 ha) of land in nearby San Mateo County .
Beverly Willis, 95, American architect (San Francisco Ballet Building), complications from Parkinson's disease. [29] Americans killed in a plane crash: [30] Russ Francis, 70, football player (New England Patriots, San Francisco 49ers) Richard McSpadden, 63, educator and USAF pilot, commander of Thunderbirds
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Congregation Beth Israel had consecrated a portion of City Cemetery in San Francisco as Sholom or Salem Cemetery on December 2, 1877. [1] [2]: 77 City Cemetery was mainly used to bury immigrants and the indigent, [3] with the vast majority of those interred being Chinese immigrants to California; the site is now occupied by the golf course in Lincoln Park and the Legion of Honor museum. [4]
Wyatt and Josephine Earp grave at Hills of Eternity Memorial Park. Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the graves were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for both the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.
Levi Strauss mausoleum at the Home of Peace Cemetery. Emanu-El Hart (or the "Old Jewish Cemetery") was built in 1847 at Gough Street and Vallejo Street in San Francisco; by 1860 the remains were relocated to an area that is now Mission Dolores Park and this served as a cemetery for the Congregation Emanu-El and the Congregation Sherith Israel.