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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
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 ...
The Decatur Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the Atlanta metropolitan area, and is believed to have been used even before Decatur's 1823 incorporation.. In 1832, an act by the local legislature created “Commissioners for the Decatur Burial Ground.” [3] [2] Numerous Civil War veterans were buried in the Decatur Cemetery, mostly in the 8-acre (3.2 ha) area now referred to as "The Old ...
This 22-year-old had to get her arm amputated due to a rare cancer. She had an open-casket funeral for it that went viral and brought healing.
[1] In 1983, it moved to Decatur and adopted its current name. Eddie Long took over as pastor in 1987. At the time, the church had only 300 members. In 1994, New Birth became a member of the Full Gospel Baptist Church Fellowship. [2] In 2001, it dedicated a new building including a 6,056-seat auditorium. [3] [4]
The Decatur Daily is a daily (five days a week) newspaper serving Decatur, Alabama and the Tennessee Valley in the North Alabama area of the United States.As of September 30, 2006, it had an average daily circulation of 20,824 and a Sunday circulation of 23,840.
Born in Decatur [1] Charles J. Givens: Feb 5, 1941: Jul 12, 1998: Financial lecturer and author Born in Decatur [2] Nathan H. Lents: Sep 22, 1978: Biologist, professor, and author Born in Decatur James W. Loewen: Feb 6, 1942: Aug 19, 2021: Author, historian, and sociology professor Born in Decatur [3] Richard Peck: Apr 10, 1934: May 24, 2018
Decatur Memorial Hospital (DMH), is a Decatur, Illinois affiliate of Memorial Medical Center (Springfield, Illinois) and is a 300-bed, not-for-profit, community hospital founded in 1916. DMH has more than 2,300 employees and 300 physicians. It is a designated Level II Trauma Center.