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While the term "party favor" is modern, the practice dates back to the classical Graeco-Roman tradition, where food or flowers were gifted to the attendees of an event. In the Middle Ages entertainers were throwing small objects at the spectators, and the elaborate table decorations were sometimes gifted to important guests after the party.
In the Antebellum South, families and churches had a long tradition of cleaning the burial sites of their cherished dead and decorating the graves with flowers. [1] These decoration days usually took place in spring or early summer when flowers were in full bloom and often included religious memorial services. [1]
A Bailey family tombstone on Bailey Mountain, West Virginia USA after decoration. According to the Dictionary of Smoky Mountain English, a Decoration or Decoration Day in Appalachia is "an occasion on which a family or church congregation gathers on a Sunday to place flowers on the graves of loved ones and to hold a memorial service for them.
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A memorial service (service of remembrance or celebration of life) is a funerary ceremony that is performed without the remains of the deceased person. [3] In both a closed casket funeral [4] and a memorial service, photos of the deceased representing stages of life would be displayed on an altar. Relatives or friends would give out eulogies in ...
Former President Jimmy Carter is expected to attend a memorial service on Tuesday in Atlanta for his wife Rosalynn Carter, who died Nov. 19 at age 96, a spokesman for The Carter Center confirmed.
The holiday originated at a local level by Ladies' Memorial Associations to care for the graves of Confederate dead. [2] In 1866, General John A. Logan commanded the posts of Grand Army of the Republic to strew flowers on the graves of Union soldiers, which observance later became the national Memorial Day.
Yolanda "Londie" Favors, Porsha Williams' cousin who appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta: Porsha's Family Matters, died on Aug, 7 at age 34. A cause of death has not been released. A cause ...