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In either 1902 or 1903, Lee D. Miller established his funeral home and a livery barn on South Main Avenue in Sioux Falls. In 1923, Miller hired local architectural firm Perkins & McWayne to build a new, larger facility on the property, as Miller had just incorporated two other local funeral homes—Burnside Funeral Home and Joseph Nelson Funeral Home—into his.
A premature obituary is a false reporting of the death of a person who is still alive. It may occur due to unexpected survival of someone who was close to death. Other reasons for such publication might be miscommunication between newspapers, family members, and the funeral home, often resulting in embarrassment for everyone involved.
A personal assistant had once stolen $3.4 million worth of jewelry, furs, and designer handbags from her home. Her jewelry collection was worth $13.4 million. Her most expensive piece was a platinum lady's 57-carat diamond necklace with an 8.31-carat green emerald - custom made by Vartan's Fine Jewelry in Los Angeles [ 35 ] - which estimated to ...
The following is a list of notable deaths in September 2016.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Officer Scott Smith shot Franklyn Reid to death during a foot chase. The following month, Smith was charged with murder in Reid's death, and was sentenced to 6 years of prison in 2000. The conviction was appealed, and Smith pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of criminally negligent homicide, and received two years of probation. [46 ...
The novel satirizes both the response of her neighbors down below—including the food they send for the funeral and the obituary written for a Southern newspaper—and the view from above, where Elner meets her dead sister, her hero Thomas Alva Edison, and God Himself: her former neighbor, Raymond, a modest, pipe-smoking divinity.
Was the youngest player to hit 100 and 200 home runs, and the first NL player to reach 500 home runs. Passed Rogers Hornsby (301) to become the all-time NL home run leader in 1937 and held that title (at 511) until Willie Mays passed him in 1966. Holds major league record by leading his team 18 consecutive years in home runs (1928–1945).
The Earl K. Long Gymnasium at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Earl Kemp Long (August 26, 1895 – September 5, 1960) was an American politician who served as the 45th governor of Louisiana on three occasions (1939–1940, 1948–1952, and 1956–1960).