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Astrid Hanzalek (January 6, 1928 – September 1, 2019) was an American politician who served in the Connecticut House of Representatives from 1971 to 1981. [1] She died of a stroke on September 1, 2019, in Suffield, Connecticut at age 91. [2]
For the remainder of his life, he was “active in national, state, and local veterans’ affairs and, from time to time has been honored for this activity.” [6], [7] According to an editorial which ran in the Hartford Courant after his death, “Mr. Vance will be remembered, too, for his interest in veterans' affairs. It began in Paris, when ...
The Hartford Courant is the largest daily newspaper in the U.S. state of Connecticut, and is advertised as the oldest continuously published newspaper in the United States.A morning newspaper serving most of the state north of New Haven and east of Waterbury, its headquarters on Broad Street in Hartford, Connecticut was a short walk from the state capitol.
This list of cemeteries in Connecticut includes currently operating, historical (closed for new interments), and defunct (graves abandoned or removed) cemeteries, columbaria, and mausolea which are historical and/or notable.
The Times was a leading newspaper in Connecticut with the largest circulation in the state in 1917. It was started by Frederick D. Bolles and John M. Niles, a future senator, as an anti-federalist weekly by the name of The Hartford Weekly Times in 1817. [2] It styled itself as a champion of reform and an advocate for the people throughout its ...
[1] [2] The cemetery has one of the highest elevations within the city of Hartford. [3] The southern edge of the cemetery abuts the campus of Trinity College . Within the 24-acre bounds of Zion Hill Cemetery, there are several small, independently managed Jewish cemeteries dating back to the 1880s. [ 4 ]
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 ...
David L. Holmes (August 28, 1932 – April 29, 2023) was an American church historian. He was Walter G. Mason Professor of Religious Studies at the College of William and Mary . He was married to Carolyn Coggin Holmes, executive director of James Monroe's Highland from 1975 to 2012.