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This category is for persons buried at the cemetery of the Ascension of our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, Ascension Parish, Louisiana. Significant in this cemetery is the Landry Tomb, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
John Harvey Lowery (October 18, 1860 – September 25, 1941), was an American physician and philanthropist from Donaldsonville in Ascension Parish south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Born in Plaquemine in Iberville Parish , he was one of nineteen children of a bricklayer and a mid-wife.
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 Donaldsonville Chief was founded in 1871. [6] Linden E. Bentley founded the newspaper as a weekly Republican journal. According to the newspaper's masthead, it is the longest continuous publication in Ascension Parish. The current editor is Greg Fischer.
Landry Tomb is an historic burial vault located in the cemetery of the Ascension of Our Lord Catholic Church in Donaldsonville, Louisiana.The two stage granite monument, containing 24 vaults, was built in 1845 and its design is attributed to James H. Dakin, an architect whose work included the Old Louisiana State Capitol building.
Ascension Parish (French: Paroisse de l'Ascension; Spanish: Parroquia de la Ascensión) is a parish located in the U.S. state of Louisiana. As of the 2020 census, the population was 126,500. [1] Its parish seat is Donaldsonville. [2] The parish was created in 1807. [3] Ascension Parish is part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.
The Daily Star began on November 12, 1959, as The Hammond Press, which on December 23 of the same year retitled itself The Hammond Item. The Daily & Sunday Star is the sole daily newspaper published in Hammond (as of 2011). [3] Its Sunday edition is The Sunday Star; The Daily Star is issued on five weekdays (Tuesday through Saturday, as of 2011).
Donaldsonville (historically French: Lafourche-des-Chitimachas) [2] is a city in, and the parish seat of Ascension Parish in the U.S. state of Louisiana. [3] Located along the River Road of the west bank of the Mississippi River, it is a part of the Baton Rouge metropolitan statistical area.