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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
St. Mary's Cemetery, Lake Forest, Illinois, 1857-2015
Author: Saint Mary's Cemetery Records, East Moline, Rock Island County, Illinois
Author: St. Mary's Cemetery (East Moline, Illinois)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
#636, St. Mary's Cemetery
Author: Gertrude FordSaint Mary's Cemetery
Author: Jo Ellen JohnsonSt. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Highland Park, Moraine Township, Lake County, Illinois, 1855-2005
Author: Lake County (IL) Genealogical SocietyPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Saint Mary's Cemetery, Streator, Illinois
Author: Saint Mary's Cemetery, Crittenden Township, (RR, Pesotum) Illinois
Author: Mary Grace BowenPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 17
Book Description
St. Mary's Cemetery
Author: Traci L. Kueker-MurphyPublisher:
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Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Confessions of a Funeral Director
Author: Caleb WildePublisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062465260
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a "must read"—reflects on mortality and the powerful lessons death holds for every one of us in this compassionate and thoughtful spiritual memoir that combines the humor and insight of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes with the poignancy and brevity of When Breath Becomes Air. We are a people who deeply fear death. While humans are biologically wired to evade death for as long as possible, we have become too adept at hiding from it, vilifying it, and—when it can be avoided no longer—letting the professionals take over. Sixth-generation funeral director Caleb Wilde understands this reticence and fear. He had planned to get as far away from the family business as possible. He wanted to make a difference in the world, and how could he do that if all the people he worked with were . . . dead? Slowly, he discovered that caring for the deceased and their loved ones was making a difference—in other people’s lives to be sure, but it also seemed to be saving his own. A spirituality of death began to emerge as he observed: The family who lovingly dressed their deceased father for his burial The act of embalming a little girl that offered a gift back to her grieving family The nursing home that honored a woman’s life by standing in procession as her body was taken away The funeral that united a conflicted community Through stories like these, told with equal parts humor and poignancy, Wilde offers an intimate look into the business and a new perspective on living and dying
Sheffield Village
Author: Charles E. HerdendorfPublisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738583334
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
The Village of Sheffield was founded on the Lake Erie plain and a sandy ridge of glacial Lake Warren. Black River and French Creek course through rich farmlands, once home to Archaic and Woodland Indians. Originally surveyed as Township 7 of Range 17 in the Connecticut Western Reserve, hearty pioneers arrived here in 1815 from the Berkshire Mountains of New England, naming their settlement Sheffield after their Massachusetts town. In the mid-1800s, another wave of immigrants arrived from Bavaria, adding cultural richness to the community. In 1894, industrialist Tom Johnson constructed giant steel mills on the west side of the river, and Sheffield Village eventually broke away, choosing to retain its agrarian identity. Today Sheffield Village is in transition to a modern residential/commercial community but keeps much of its natural character by virtue of parklands along stream valleys. Fortunately, fine examples of homestead architecture have been preserved throughout the village.