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Ohio Says Funeral Home Can't Use Liquid Cremation
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsAn Ohio funeral home director who used lye and high temperatures to liquefy bodies has been ordered to stop the unusual practice, which authorities say is not approved under state law. For two months now, Jeff Edwards, the funeral director at Edwards Funeral Service in Columbus, has been disposing of bodies using alkaline hydrolysis, or liquid cremation, a process that uses lye and high temperatures to liquefy human remains. But last week, state officials told him that it "is not an authorized form of disposition of a dead human body," according to The Columbus Dispatch, which first reported ...
Brother, Sister Die in Crash on Way to Stepmother's Funeral
By Lisa Holewa - AOL NewsChester Mills was supposed to bury his wife in Indiana earlier this week. But while two of his children were driving from Georgia to attend their stepmother's funeral, their car spun out on a snowy highway and was broadsided by an oncoming tractor-trailer. The crash killed them and a friend who was driving the car. Now Mills is left dealing with more impossible loss. "It's a difficult day," Rev. Rodney Coffman told AOL News during a brief telephone interview, as he traveled this morning from the funeral to the cemetery where Amber Mills was being buried. Mills, 43, died at her home in ...
Mourners Recall Sarge Shriver's Charity, Idealism
By not in system - AOL NewsPOTOMAC, Md. -- R. Sargent Shriver was always an optimist, pioneering the Peace Corps and running the War on Poverty during the turbulent 1960s - an idealist even as the running mate on a Democratic presidential ticket doomed for failure. At his funeral Mass on Saturday, mourners from philanthropist and musician Bono to Vice President Joe Biden to former President Bill Clinton honored a man who dedicated his life to serving others. The celebration was filled with songs, laughter and fond memories. "Fifty years ago, President Kennedy told us we should ask what we can do for our country," ...
Arizona Buries Shooting Victim Who Died Shielding Wife
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsMavanell "Mavy" Stoddard was surprised to find love again late in life. After her husband died, she moved back to her hometown of Tucson and rekindled a romance with her high school sweetheart. But now she finds herself a widow twice over. Her new husband, Dorwan Stoddard, was one of the six people killed more than a week ago when a gunman opened fire at a meet-and-greet event for Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Witnesses say the 76-year-old threw himself over his wife's body to protect her from the bullets, but was shot in the head himself. Mavy Stoddard, 75, was shot three times ...
Christina Green to Be Buried in Simple, Handcrafted Casket From Trappist Monks
By David Gibson - Politics DailyThrough all the grieving and gnashing of teeth occasioned by the terrible gun massacre in Tucson, Ariz., 9-year-old Christina Green, the youngest victim, is emerging as the emblem of all that was lost last Saturday and of all that is to be rebuilt by those who live on. Christina was in many ways the soul of President Obama's sermon at the memorial Wednesday night, and at her funeral on Thursday her body will also receive special attention thanks to a special child's casket made by a community of Trappist monks in Iowa. Many religious communities of monks and nuns have a long tradition of ...
Funeral for Youngest Shooting Victim to Celebrate 'A Little Bright Light'
By Lauren Frayer - AOL NewsThe distraught parents of the youngest Arizona shooting victim walked into their daughter's funeral today under an archway draped with an American flag nearly destroyed on Sept. 11, 2001 -- the very day their daughter was born. Two fire trucks' ladders were extended into the sky at the entrance to St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Catholic Church in Tucson, where Christina Taylor Green's life -- cut short at just 9 years -- was being celebrated today. The funeral began at 3 p.m. EST. A giant, 20-by-30 foot flag rescued from the rubble of the World Trade Center was hoisted up between them, creating an ...
World Trade Center Flag to Fly at Christina Green's Funeral
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe flag that was recovered from the World Trade Center will be on display at the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, and was killed in Saturday's shooting in Arizona. The Arizona Republic reports that the giant, 20-by-30 foot flag, which firefighters famously hoisted over the rubble of the World Trade Center, is headed to Tucson for Green's funeral on Thursday. New York City firefighter Jimmy Sands carried the flag with him from New York on a flight to Arizona on Tuesday evening. Mary Schwalm, AP The National 9/11 Flag will be displayed ...
Elizabeth Edwards to Be Buried Saturday Beside Son
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Dec. 9) -- Elizabeth Edwards will be laid to rest this weekend next to her son Wade, who was only 16 when he was killed in a car accident 14 years ago. The funeral will be held Saturday afternoon at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, N.C., and is open to the public. Edwards died Tuesday at age 61 after a long battle with cancer. The estranged wife of two-time Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards became an inspirational and sympathetic figure as she publicly shared the struggles of her private life -- Wade's death, her fight against cancer and her husband's ...
Christian Extremist Group to Picket Elizabeth Edwards Funeral
By David Gibson - Politics DailyAs if Elizabeth Edwards did not have enough difficulties to face while alive, she is now being dogged even in death, this time by a small, right-wing Kansas church that says it will picket her funeral at a Methodist church in Raleigh on Saturday afternoon. A statement from the Westboro Baptist Church, an unaffiliated congregation in Topeka that is infamous for its homophobic and anti-Semitic rants, and its protests at the funerals of soldiers and AIDS victims, says its members will stage a demonstration across the street from Edenton Street United Methodist Church for 90 minutes before the ...
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