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Her first husband Clem Geddes was in the funeral business. The couple partnered with Arnold Moss to form a company that sold insurance as well as owning a funeral home. [4] After Clem Geddes died in 1913, she married William A. Willis. In 1940, she renamed the business the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home and Life Insurance Company. [4]
Drummers at the funeral of jazz musician Danny Barker in 1994. They include Louis Cottrell, (great-grandson of New Orleans' innovative drumming pioneer, Louis Cottrell, Sr. and grandson of New Orleans clarinetist Louis Cottrell, Jr.) of the Young Tuxedo Brass Band, far right; Louis "Bicycle Lewie" Lederman of the Down & Dirty Brass band, second from right.
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Grandpa Elliott was born as Elliot Small on July 10, 1944 in New Orleans, Louisiana. [1] [2] Growing up in the Lafitte Housing Projects, Small developed a love of music as a young boy, in part to deal with the pains of an unhappy home life.
The New Orleans Underground Gourmet. Simon and Schuster, 1970. Edge, John T. Fried Chicken: An American Story. Putnam Adult, 2004. ISBN 0-399-15183-4. Leslie, Austin. Chez Helene : House of Good Food Cookbook De Simonin Publications, New Orleans. ISBN 1-883100-02-X; Leslie, Austin. Creole-Soul New Orleans Cooking with a Soulful Twist.
"Tuba Fats" at left busking with a small band in Jackson Square, New Orleans in 2001. Of African American heritage, Anthony Lacen was born, spent most of his life, and died in New Orleans, Louisiana. His music also took him on a number of tours of Europe, Asia, Australia, and South America.
A jazz funeral for the Equal Rights Amendment took place in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana on July 3, 1982. [1] The event was a public mourning for the failure of the proposed Amendment to the United States Constitution to be ratified by the required 38 states (3/4 of the 50 states) before the congressionally imposed 1982 deadline.
John McDonogh (December 29, 1779 – October 26, 1850) was an American entrepreneur whose adult life was spent in south Louisiana and later in Baltimore. He made a fortune in real estate and shipping, and as a slave owner, he supported the American Colonization Society, which organized transportation for freed people of color to Liberia.