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Legacy.com is a United States–based website founded in 1998, [2] the world's largest commercial provider of online memorials. [3] The Web site hosts obituaries and memorials for more than 70 percent of all U.S. deaths. [4] Legacy.com hosts obituaries for more than three-quarters of the 100 largest newspapers in the U.S., by circulation. [5]
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 ...
Peggy Lynn Johnson (formerly known as Racine County Jane Doe), also known by the last name Schroeder, was an American woman whose body was discovered in 1999 in the town of Raymond, Racine County, Wisconsin. [1] She was 23 years old at the time of her death, which had occurred after enduring several weeks of extreme neglect and physical abuse.
Krsto Papić, 79, Croatian screenwriter and film director (My Uncle's Legacy). [124] Peter Steen, 77, Danish actor. [125] Elvi Svendsen, 93, Danish Olympic swimmer. [126] József Tóth, 72, Hungarian geographer and academic, rector of the University of Pécs. [127] Jürgen Untermann, 84, German linguist. [128]
As of the census [6] of 2010, there were 675 people, 288 households, and 191 families living in the village. The population density was 1,534.1 inhabitants per square mile (592.3/km 2).
The Racine County Jail, located in downtown Racine and sharing a block with the Racine County Law Enforcement Center, is the primary detention facility of the county and the sheriff's office. The jail has a maximum capacity of 876 inmates, making it one of the largest non-state detention facilities in Wisconsin.
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2016.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
In 1912, the name was changed to the Racine Journal News. The newspaper's former radio station, WRJN , was founded in December 1926. Starbuck died in 1929, his son, Frank R. Starbuck, became publisher, and in 1932 the paper merged with the Racine Times-Call , the other local daily, to become the Journal Times .