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The funeral homes sued Tri-State and Marsh, eventually settling first for $36 million with the plaintiff's class in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. Ultimately, the Marsh defendants also settled for $3.5 million after their insurer, Georgia Farm Bureau, agreed to pay the settlement.
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. [1]
Gene Knutson, 75, American football player. [113] Dorothy Podber, 75, American performance artist, shot Andy Warhol's Shot Marilyns paintings. [114] Merril Sandoval, 82, American Navajo Code Talker during World War II. [115] Joseph Tyree Sneed III, 87, American senior judge (Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit). [116]
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Texas City is home to the Texas City Dike, a man-made breakwater built of tumbled granite blocks in the 1930s, that was originally designed to protect the lower Houston Ship Channel from silting. The dike, famous among locals as being "the world's longest man-made fishing pier ", extends roughly 5.2 mi (8 km) to the southeast into the mouth of ...
Francis Augustus Hamer (March 17, 1884 – July 10, 1955) was an American lawman and Texas Ranger who led the 1934 posse that tracked down and killed criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.
Bonnie Mae Fox Clutter (January 7, 1914 – November 15, 1959), age 45, Herb's wife. Nancy Mae Clutter (January 2, 1943 – November 15, 1959) was the 16-year-old daughter of Herb and Bonnie Clutter. She was the third of the four Clutter children and the youngest daughter.
The National Museum of Funeral History is a museum in Houston, Texas, that contains a collection of artifacts and relics that aim to "educate the public and preserve the heritage of death care." The 35,000-square-foot museum opened in 1992.