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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]
As of October 2020, the museum has a presidential exhibit, including Abraham Lincoln's death mask. The “National Funeral Museum of Houston” also displays several facts and information about the impact of African-American history on the funeral industry as well as famous African-American people who have passed away and their impact on the world.
On November 30, 2018, George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States and the 43rd vice president, died from vascular Parkinson's syndrome at his home in Houston, Texas. Bush was the first former U.S. president to die in nearly 12 years since Gerald Ford in 2006.
The Woodlawn Garden of Memories is a cemetery in Houston, Texas which is included in the National Register of Historic Places. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect. NRHP lists Dionicio Rodriguez as the cemetery's architect.
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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 ...
Sheila Jackson Lee (née Jackson; January 12, 1950 – July 19, 2024) was an American lawyer and politician who was the U.S. representative for Texas's 18th congressional district, from 1995 until her death in 2024.
Its effects in Windsor, the home of Alse Young, can be seen in the town's mortality records. Between 1646 and 1647, the death rate more than quadrupled, from six to 27, an increase arguably attributable to the epidemic. Notably, the death rate remained elevated into the following year, at 25, before falling back down to four. [27] [6]