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A single-casket funeral for Jessie and her daughter was held June 30 at the House of the Lord, with a subsequent interment at Greenlawn Memorial Park. The arrangements were handled by the Silva-Hostetler Funeral Home, both in the Akron area. [14] [15] Although members of the Cutts family attended, Davis' son Blake did not. The family "felt the ...
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 ...
By the time of his death, Davis had become a transitional figure. He was the embodiment of the Old South, who lived long enough to be seen as emblematic of the New South. Davis's funeral and reburial is also symbolic of his problematic legacy as a leader of the Confederate States of America and its role in the perpetuation of slavery.
President George H. W. Bush lying in state in the United States Capitol rotunda on December 3, 2018. 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 other civilians who have rendered distinguished ...
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F. Elwood Davis (1915–2012), lawyer and philanthropist [42] [citation needed] Alexander de Bodisco (1786–1853), Russian Minister to the United States [43] Sophie Radford de Meissner (1854–1857), author, socialite and spiritualist [44] Josiah Dent (1817–1899), third president of the Board of Commissioners of the District of Columbia
Derek Davis, 67, Irish broadcaster . [209] Gill Dennis, 74, American screenwriter (Walk the Line, Return to Oz). [210] Robert Drasnin, 87, American composer and clarinet player, complications from a fall. [211] Lucy Fabery, 84, Puerto Rican jazz singer. [212] Romolo Ferri, 86, Italian motorcycle racer. [213] Joseph Fidel, 91, American politician.
Marker denoting Davis' birth near Memphis, Indiana. Jefferson C. Davis was born in Clark County, Indiana, near present-day Memphis, Indiana. [6] He was born to William Davis Jr. (1800–1879) and Mary Drummond-Davis (1801–1881), the oldest of their eight children.