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A one-day visitation was held at Rayner Funeral Home on Friday, September 2, 1955. It is said that 5,000 people attended, though accounts vary. [2] The open-casket funeral was held on September 3 at Roberts Temple Church of God in Christ. Roughly 2,000 attendees witnessed the service inside the church with thousands more attending outside. Rev.
Bagot was the eldest son of two sons and five daughters born to William Bagot, 3rd Baron Bagot, and his wife, the former Hon. Lucia Caroline Elizabeth Agar-Ellis.His mother was a daughter of George Agar-Ellis, 1st Baron Dover and his sister, Louisa Bagot, married Hamar Alfred Bass of the Bass Brewery family in 1879.
In addition to being a home for several different owners, the house has also served as a funeral home and as the headquarters of the Chicago Urban League. [2] The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on June 9, 1978. [1] On December 3, 2023, the building was severely damaged in a fire. [3] [4]
Forest Home Cemetery is a cemetery located at 863 S. Des Plaines Ave, Forest Park, Illinois, adjacent to the Eisenhower Expressway, straddling the Des Plaines River in Cook County, just west of Chicago. [1] The cemetery traces its history to two adjacent cemeteries, German Waldheim (1873) and Forest Home (1876), which merged in 1969.
William King Baggot (November 7, 1879 – July 11, 1948) was an American actor, film director, and screenwriter. He was an internationally famous movie star of the silent film era. The first individually publicized leading man in America, Baggot was referred to as "King of the Movies," "The Most Photographed Man in the World" and "The Man Whose ...
Woman finds brother bound, gagged, beaten to death in basement of Chicago home: Reports. Fernando Cervantes Jr., USA TODAY. Updated January 31, 2025 at 6:55 AM.
“No technique.” “No style.” Those are exact quotes from William Friedkin talking about William Friedkin, in the context of the filmmaker’s intentional lack of conventional artifice on ...
A Walk Through Graceland Cemetery: A Chicago Architecture Foundation Walking Tour. Chicago, IL: Chicago Architecture Foundation. p. 6. ISBN 9780962056208. Vernon, Christopher (2012). Graceland Cemetery: A Design History. Amherst, MA: Library of American Landscape History and University of Massachusetts Press. ISBN 978-1-55849-926-3.