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Greenwood Cemetery is an historic rural cemetery in Shreveport, Louisiana. It was established in 1893 and is the second oldest cemetery in the city. It was established in 1893 and is the second oldest cemetery in the city.
May married three times. She divorced her first husband, attorney Samuel W. Mason. Her second husband, attorney James Martin Foster, died in 1928. She was divorcing her third husband, Stanley Llewellyn Simonsen, at the time of her death. She committed suicide by shooting herself with a .32-caliber revolver in her Shreveport home on 13 May 1932. [1]
Her first husband Clem Geddes was in the funeral business. The couple partnered with Arnold Moss to form a company that sold insurance as well as owning a funeral home. [4] After Clem Geddes died in 1913, she married William A. Willis. In 1940, she renamed the business the Gertrude Geddes Willis Funeral Home and Life Insurance Company. [4]
Chalmette National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located within Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and Preserve in Chalmette, Louisiana.The cemetery is a 17.5-acre (7.1 ha) graveyard adjacent to the site that was once the battleground of the Battle of New Orleans, which took place at the end of the War of 1812. [2]
Joshua Logan (1908–1988), Broadway director of South Pacific and Mister Roberts; born in Texarkana, Texas, but raised in Shreveport. Dottye Dimple Brown Mason (1920 – 2003), was working as a stewardess when she was noticed for her looks and demeanor, which led to a role in the 1947 Jimmie Davis film "Louisiana."
Headquarters. 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).
Funeral procession of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans. Jefferson Davis died at 12:45 a.m. on Friday, December 6, 1889. [1] [2] His funeral was one of the largest in the South, and New Orleans draped itself in mourning as his body lay in state in the City Hall for several
In 1870 his remains were returned to the United States and were interred at the Green-Wood Cemetery. His original burial spot, a marble monument topped by an "Angel of Music" statue, was irreparably damaged by vandals in 1959. [57] In October 2012 a new "Angel of Music" statue was unveiled. [58] Glenn Gould: 1982 Pianist