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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 ...
Ernest, an electrical engineer, joined Ellis and Clark (another connection with the Clark family) in 1909, was major shareholder in H. M. Martin and Son. He and Lorna were the parents of Mary Maydwell Martin. [7] Ronald Henry Martin (7 September 1880 – 27 March 1950) married Hilda Mildmay Landseer (1 June 1882 – 13 June 1974) on 20 February ...
Pope was born in 1861 at Walpole, New Hampshire.His family moved to Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1862 where his mother died in 1867 and his father died in 1868.He was raised in Newton, Massachusetts, [1] by his extended family including his aunts, Drs. Emily and C. Augusta Pope who were among the first women physicians in the United States.
On rare occasions, Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day coincide. Former President Barack Obama’s inauguration for his second term fell on Sunday, Jan. 20, 2013.
Jayawardena was born on 17 March 1950 [N 1] in the village Siyambalanduwa, Monaragala, Sri Lanka as the eldest of the family. [3] His father H. M. Wijayasundara was a farmer and his mother D.M. Ranmenika was a housewife.
California Cemetery and Funeral Bureau Certificate of Authority – Cemetery, License Number 506 Archived February 22, 2016, at the Wayback Machine, Funeral Establishment License Number 951 Archived June 24, 2017, at the Wayback Machine; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Westwood Memorial Park
King's first funeral took place on April 5, 1968, at R.S. Lewis Funeral Home in Memphis. After the shooting, King was taken by ambulance to the emergency room at St. Joseph's Hospital and was pronounced dead at 7:05 p.m. King's closest aides contacted Robert Lewis Jr.—a local funeral director who had first met King two days prior—to retrieve the body and prepare it for viewing.
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]