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National Memorial Park is a cemetery in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Falls Church, Virginia. [1] The cemetery is part of the National Funeral Home and National Memorial Park complex, which includes several related memorial and end-of-life services. The cemetery covers 168 acres, lined with fountains, trees, gardens, and sculptures.
Service Corporation International is an American provider of funeral goods and services as well as cemetery property and services. It is headquartered in Neartown, Houston, Texas, and operates secondary corporate offices in Jefferson, Louisiana (near New Orleans). [5] [6] SCI operates more than 1500 funeral homes and 400 cemeteries. [1]
Alfred Douglas Price, Sr. (1860–1921) also known as A. D. Price, was an African American businessman and community leader in the late 19th-century and early 20th-century in Richmond, Virginia. [1] [2] He owned a blacksmith shop, funeral home, and a livery. Price was one of the largest African American real estate owners in his city and the A ...
In this photo provided by Jeff Bennett, flags indicating the unmarked graves of Black tenant farmers are seen Dec. 10, 2024, on the former Oak Hill plantation outside of Danville, Va. (Jeff ...
Funeral homes arrange services in accordance with the wishes of surviving friends and family, whether immediate next of kin or an executor so named in a legal will. The funeral home often takes care of the necessary paperwork, permits, and other details, such as making arrangements with the cemetery, and providing obituaries to the news media ...
Law enforcement gather at Westhaven Funeral Home in Jackson, Miss., after participating in a procession carrying the body of fallen Hinds County Deputy Martin Shields Jr., 37, Monday, Feb. 24, 2025.
Arlington House is the historic Custis family mansion built by George Washington Parke Custis from 1803–1818 as a memorial to George Washington.Currently maintained by the National Park Service, it is located in the U.S. Army's Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia (formerly Alexandria, D.C.).
George Samuel Etter opened his Etter Funeral Home in Stuarts Draft in 1895. [9] [d] Other businesses that opened in Stuarts Draft in 1895 include a barrel factory and a chair factory. [4] Also in 1895, the Fishersville, Barterbrook, and Stuarts Draft Telephone Company was established. [4] Its first telephones were operational in May 1897. [4]