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Almost 1,700 members of the families of the identified corpses sued Tri-State and the funeral homes that had shipped the bodies there, and were eventually granted class-action status in two courts in two different states. Class-action status was granted by Judge Neil Thomas in Hamilton County, Tennessee Circuit Court. This case was filed by ...
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In February, just months after 190 bodies were found in a bug-infested funeral home facility two hours south of Denver, another body was found in a separate case: that of Christina Rosales.
The funeral industry is laden with sexism and specific roles based on sex.” [5] During the 1960s and 1970s, there was a stigma against females as funeral directors that lasted until 1980; it was extremely difficult for women to find employment in the funeral industry outside of a family practice.
Meanwhile in Colorado in August, funeral home owners Jon and Carie Hallford were ordered to make a nearly $1 billion payout to 125 people who sued the business for failing to cremate or bury at ...
Carl K. Linge died in 1963 and his son, David E. Linge (the second generation) became president. David E. Linge had been working with his father for a number of years. David founded The Cedar Memorial Funeral Home Company in 1965 creating the first combination operation in the state of Iowa with a funeral home on the cemetery grounds.
The Louise Noun-Mary Louise Smith Iowa Women's Archives is located on the third floor of the Main Library in the University of Iowa Libraries system in Iowa City, Iowa.It was funded when Louise Noun sold a Frida Kahlo painting titled "Self Portrait with Loose Hair" for $1.65 million through Christie's in New York on May 15, 1991.
The caisson bearing the casket of John F. Kennedy moving down the White House drive on the way to St. Matthew's Cathedral on November 25, 1963.. In the United States, state funerals are the official funerary rites conducted by the federal government in the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., that are offered to a sitting or former president, a president-elect, high government officials and ...