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Forest Lawn Memorial Park is a cemetery in Burnaby, British Columbia in Canada. The burial park was founded in 1936 and the funeral home was established in 1965. The cemetery contains the war graves of 37 Commonwealth service personnel of World War II .
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 ...
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Courtney Gonsalves, 62, Guyanese cricketer. [577] Ahmad Sayyed Javadi, 95, Iranian political activist and politician, Minister of Justice (1979), Minister of Interior (1979). [578] Sir Michael Jenkins, 77, British diplomat, Ambassador to the Netherlands (1988–1993). [579] Bebe Lee, 96, American basketball coach and administrator. [580]
Robert William Pickton (October 24, 1949 – May 31, 2024), also known as the Pig Farmer Killer or the Butcher, was a Canadian serial killer and pig farmer.After dropping out of school, he left a butcher's apprenticeship to begin working full-time at his family's pig farm, and inherited it in the early 1990s.
Allan Williams, 88, Canadian politician, Attorney General of British Columbia (1979–1983), after long illness. [375] Wally Yonamine, 85, American baseball (Yomiuri Giants, Chunichi Dragons) and football player (San Francisco 49ers), prostate cancer. [376] Doyald Young, 84, American logotype designer, complications of heart surgery. [377]
Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 95, South African politician and Zulu prince, minister of home affairs (1994–2004), MP (since 1994) and chief minister of KwaZulu (1977–1994). [221] Amara Camara, Guinean diplomat and aid worker. [222] Rubén Carolini, 79, Argentine paleontologist, discoverer of the Giganotosaurus. [223]
The British Columbia Lottery Corporation made a $40,000 grant for the fire hall. [569] The following year, policy conflicts within the department came to a head, resulting in the termination of the assistant chief and six members. [570] Volunteer firefighter David Peter Hryniuk (1942–95) [571] died battling a fire at his own home. [572]