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The cemetery and funeral home offers services consistent with Jewish burial and mourning traditions. [7] The cemetery contains the Nature's Sanctuary which is a natural burial section that only allows biodegradable caskets, shrouds and urns. All the graves are dug by hand and the section is landscaped with local grasses, trees and shrubbery. [8]
Waters was born in Chester, Pennsylvania, on October 31, 1896 (some sources incorrectly state her birth year as 1900 [5] [1] [6]) as a result of the rape of her teenaged African-American mother, Louise Anderson (1881–1962), [1] by 17-year-old John Wesley (or Wesley John) Waters (1878–1901), [1] a pianist and family acquaintance from a middle-class African-American background.
Elisha Kent Kane's funeral was the largest in the United States until Abraham Lincoln's [8] Elisha Kent Kane (1820–1857), physician, polar explorer, lover or husband of spiritualist Margaretta "Maggie" Fox; John K. Kane (1795–1858), U.S. District Judge, Attorney General of Pennsylvania
The Alderwoods Group formed on January 2, 2002, after the Loewen Group, then the second largest funeral home and cemetery operator in North America, emerged from bankruptcy. [2] In November 2006, Alderwoods was acquired by Service Corporation International in a US$1.2 billion deal reached in April of the same year. [3] [4]
Home rule municipalities in Pennsylvania enjoy the opposite situation (i.e., they may govern themselves except where expressly forbidden by state law), and are governed according to their unique home rule charter rather than one of the above codes. While most home rule charter municipalities continue to reference their previous forms of ...
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Edward "Eddie The Butcher" Cummiskey Jr. (1934, Hell's Kitchen, Manhattan - August 20, 1976, Chelsea, Manhattan) was a New York mobster who served as a mentor to Jimmy Coonan, leader of the Westies.