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The Frank E. Campbell Funeral Chapel is a funeral home located on Madison Avenue at 81st Street in Manhattan. Founded in 1898 as Frank E. Campbell Burial and Cremation Company, the company is now owned by Service Corporation International. Frank E. Campbell is known for handling many celebrity deaths and funerals including those of John Lennon ...
Carol Heiss [31] Bobsled. Stan Benham [32] Ice hockey. Curt Gowdy [33] Speed skating. Curt Gowdy. Jim McKay, [34] Curt Gowdy, [35] and Jim Simpson [36] were the only play-by-play announcers that were utilized by ABC throughout the 1964 Winter Olympics. Beginning in 1962, Dick Button worked as a figure skating analyst for ABC Sports, which had ...
His obituary in the Minneapolis Morning Tribune described him as a 33rd degree Freemason and the Knights Templar. [33] [34] Ezra Ames (1768–1836), American portrait painter [6] Oliver Ames (1831–1895), 35th governor of Massachusetts. Primary lodge membership unknown, but made honorary member of Columbian Lodge of Boston. [10]
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
Keith Collar Clark (November 21, 1927 – January 11, 2002) [2] was a bugler in the United States Army who played the call "Taps" at the funeral of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. He misplayed the sixth note, and to many this mistake was a poignant symbol of the American nation in mourning. [3] The bugle that Clark used is on display at the ...
Clark-Bradford was born in Detroit, Michigan to world-renowned gospel choir director, gold-certified singer, and musician Mattie Moss Clark and Pastor Elbert Clark. Clark-Bradford was taught to sing alongside her sisters at a young age, with the goal of forming a powerful group of female evangelists who would win souls for God with their voices.
John Gilbert Layton was born on July 18, 1950 in Montreal, Quebec, [3] to parents Doris Elizabeth (née Steeves), and Progressive Conservative MP Robert Layton.He was the maternal great-grandnephew of William Steeves, a Father of Confederation, and his grandfather, Gilbert Layton, had served as a minister without portfolio to the government of Quebec's Union Nationale under Premier Maurice ...
Jirair Hovnanian: home builder; John Carmichael Jenkins: planter and proponent of slavery in the Antebellum South; Reginald H. Jones: former chairman and CEO of General Electric; Yotaro Kobayashi: chairman and co-CEO, Fuji Xerox; Kong Dongmei: Chinese entrepreneur and granddaughter of the founder of the People's Republic of China Mao Zedong