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Sometimes the prewritten obituary's subject outlives its author. One example is The New York Times' obituary of Taylor, written by the newspaper's theater critic Mel Gussow, who died in 2005. [7] The 2023 obituary of Henry Kissinger featured reporting by Michael T. Kaufman, who died almost 14 years earlier in 2010. [8]
"The Gooks will never drive the Argylls off this hill." [257] — Kenneth Muir VC, British Army officer (23 September 1950), mortally wounded by automatic weapon fire during Battle of Hill 282 in the Korean War "This is it! I'm going. I'm going." [2] [12]: 41 — Al Jolson, American singer and actor (23 October 1950)
Milvirtha Knight Hendricks (February 27, 1920 - July 20, 2009 [1]) was an African American woman who, on September 1, 2005, was photographed by Eric Gay of the Associated Press outside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center huddled in one of several American flag blankets given to her and to several other disaster victims, two days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. [2]
The Riverside Memorial Chapel is an American Jewish funeral home chain with their main facility at 180 West 76th Street on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, New York City. [1] The company has been owned by Service Corporation International since 1971.
Harrison graduated from College High (Bowling Green, Kentucky).He was a veteran of World War II.He received a B.A. from Western Kentucky University in 1946, then enrolled at New York University where he earned an M.A. in 1947 and a PhD in 1951, both in history. [1]
Antoinette Bonnie Candia-Bailey (March 12, 1974 – January 8, 2024) was an American academic administrator who served in 2023 as the vice president for student affairs at Lincoln University of Missouri (a historically black college) in 2023.
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
Ralph Matthew McInerny (February 24, 1929 – January 29, 2010) [1] was an American author and philosophy professor at the University of Notre Dame.McInerny's most popular mystery novels featured Father Dowling, [2] and was later adapted into the Father Dowling Mysteries television show, which ran from 1987 to 1991.