Word: morticianed
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Friends of Franklyn E. Rees in Omaha, Neb., waited four days after he died this month, until his sister should arrive for the funeral. She came, the night before Easter. The mortician in charge, Leo A. Hoffman, did not like the idea of a funeral on Easter, thought it might bring the mourners sad recollections on future Easters. Efficient, enterprising, Mortician Hoffman had an idea. Funeral services are often held at night. Wakes are an old custom. Why not?though he had never heard of one?a night burial...
...fancies itself as so many "born actors." For many years past, it has been the distinctive and creditable custom of the club to act plays, often notable, that would other wise go unproduced in Boston and Cambridge. Now it prefers a shopworn farce from the Copley, appropriately containing a "mortician." Backwoods universities as those young gentlemen probably call them do better with their "dramatics." Boston Transcript
...still living in the Mauve Decade, is brought face to face with the modern world by the advent of her cousin from Chicago. To gain the aura of respectibility necessary to pass the Victorian fastnesses of the ancestral mansion, he is forced to change places with a deputy assistant mortician, and put the finishing touches on the cremation of an elderly and unwept female relative. He not only completely changes the mode of living of the niece; but even succeeds in convincing the three aunts that they still have something to live...
...dead? A fixed hour might be set for the nationwide broadcasting of funeral music and nationwide funerals might be timed accordingly. A resolution urging such procedure was introduced at a meeting of the New Jersey State Funeral Directors' Association, held last week in Camden, by John S. Martin, mortician, delegate from Elizabeth...
Atlanta. The unknown murderers of Robert Brandon, mortician, and Prof. Alexander Hamilton Johnson of Hartwell, slain during the convention of the National Education Association in June...