funeral
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Then it becomes clear: An email pops into her inbox years after the break-up, summoning her back to New Orleans for the funeral of a bartender they both knew.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 5, 2026
Petrosillo added: "On the day of her funeral, the hearse came through Skewen and the amount of people who came out for that was amazing."
From BBC ● Nov. 5, 2026
Gertrude Brou has worked in the industry for 15 years, selling funeral articles and dressing the dead.
From Barron's ● Nov. 4, 2026
Flores was a football player with Steinbeck Tigers Youth Football & Cheer, according to a fundraiser set up by the youth sports group to help his family cover funeral, memorial and other expenses.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
“Didn’t you hear anything at the funeral? He was the old schoolmaster before Miss Myrt’s time. Ten foot tall in his clawhammer coat.”
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
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Some were traveling to funerals, weddings and family reunions that the poet laureate commemorated in a poem written in minutes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2026
On Saturday, preparations were underway for the victims' funerals the following day and church officials had dug a mass grave, which will become a memorial.
From Barron's ● Oct. 25, 2026
They can prepay for funerals and give gifts, as long as they do so ahead of the look-back period.
From MarketWatch ● Aug. 25, 2026
His church does "a lot more funerals than we do weddings and baptisms," he explains.
From BBC ● Aug. 21, 2026
I ask, because we’ve been invited to parties before—birthdays, weddings, funerals, graduations.
From "Pride" by Ibi Zoboi
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