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Koelsch Funeral Home: Koelsch Funeral Home: October 12, 2010 : 7622 W, Greenfield Ave. Tudor Revival-styled funeral home, designed by Raymond Dwyer and built in 1937 with air conditioning and a sound system - advanced for the time. [153] 96
A local cabinet maker built the coffin. Close family and friends met for a small service in the home. Then the body was carried by a rented horse-drawn hearse to the church for a ceremony, and then on to the cemetery for the burial. By the 1890s, full-service funeral homes were beginning to appear in Milwaukee, with more space than the typical ...
The case marks the second time in recent years that Milwaukee funeral home operators have been charged with fraud. Former funeral home owner Jimmy D. Davis Jr. was charged in September 2021 with ...
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 ...
Another Flagg-system home built in 1925 by Meyer & Co. - 1.5 stories, clad in limestone with slate shingles, with two round-capped chimneys and one ridge dormer. Starke was a brother of the builder, and manager of the Milwaukee Tug Boat line. [51] [52] 43: Milwaukee County Home for Dependent Children-Administration Building
His wife died "peacefully" on Dec. 12, according to an obituary shared by the Bell-O’Dea Funeral Home in Brookline, Mass. The couple were married 66 years and shared six children together, ...
A Home funeral is when a funeral occurs at a person's home, as opposed to a funeral home. Though rare since the advent of funeral homes, they were once common events, since washing and laying out the body often took place at home, as well as the viewing, the wake and the burial in the family plot. Some are now preferring to do this themselves ...
A committee appointed by members of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in 1847 established Forest Home Cemetery on what would later become Milwaukee's south side. When the land was selected it was located nearly two miles outside of the city limits along the newly built Janesville Plank Road (now Forest Home Avenue), in an area believed to be far enough from urban development to remain rural. [4]