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The Funeral Sermon and Prayer (Hungarian: Halotti beszéd és könyörgés) is the oldest known and surviving contiguous Hungarian text, written by one scribal hand in the Latin script and dating to 1192–1195. It is found on f.154a of the Codex Pray.
The text is one of the Anglican funeral sentences from the Book of Common Prayer. Early versions began possibly in 1672 and were revised twice before 1680. Purcell composed his last version, in a different style, for the 1695 Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, Z. 860.
Harner's poem quickly gained traction as a eulogy and was read at funerals in Kansas and Missouri. It was soon reprinted in the Kansas City Times and the Kansas City Bar Bulletin. [1]: 426 [2] Harner earned a degree in industrial journalism and clothing design at Kansas State University. [3] Several of her other poems were published and ...
Visitation for the sheriff is scheduled for 3 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the cathedral, at 381 Grand St. in Paterson. Berdnik's funeral is scheduled for Wednesday at 10 a.m. at St. John's, followed by ...
The End of Watch Call or Last Radio Call is a ceremony in which, after a police officer's death (usually in the line of duty but sometimes from illness), the officers from his or her unit or department gather around a police radio, over which the police dispatcher issues one call to the officer, followed by a silence, then a second call, followed by silence.
The poem was set to music by Harold Fraser-Simson in 1927 and, under the name Christopher Robin is Saying His Prayers, many commercial recordings of the song were released including by Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. In his 1974 memoir, Christopher Milne described it as a "wretched poem" which inaccurately described his thoughts in prayer.
Funeral arrangements have been set for longtime Passaic County Sheriff Richard Berdnik, who died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in Clifton this week. Visitation will be on Jan. 30 from 3 to 8 ...
More than 500 vehicles were estimated to have driven in a funeral procession that escorted Sumner County Sheriff Roy "Sonny" Weatherford from Long Hollow Church to Crestview Funeral Home in ...