When Lee Hoyt was in college her parents died — first her mother and then her father. Hoyt, now a retired teacher and volunteer at Gilchrist Hospice in central Maryland, said the losses were exacerbated by the abrupt separation from her parents.
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WEDNESDAY, April 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) — Many college students send or receive text messages more than 100 times each day and at the most inappropriate times and places, a new study finds. How inappropriate? According to a poll involving more than 150 …
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The funerals of three children who died when their car plunged into a lake in Melbourne’s south-west will be open to the public, their grieving father has announced. Joseph Tito Manyang’s one-year-old son Bol, four-year-old daughter Anger and her twin …
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On the eve of the day the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, more than 1,000 stricken mourners spent six wrenching hours on Saturday laying their children to rest and wondering why violent death seems to become a full-time …
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On the eve of the day the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, more than 1,000 stricken mourners spent six wrenching hours on Saturday laying their children to rest and wondering why violent death seems to become a full-time …
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On the eve of the day the Christian world celebrates the resurrection of Jesus Christ, more than 1,000 stricken mourners spent six wrenching hours on Saturday laying their children to rest and wondering why violent death seems to become a full-time …
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But it was a natural step — he had grown up around death and funerals, after all. The business has changed just in the same way and manner as society had changed. The type of families we take care of and deal with today are different than the families …
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Most mothers dream of their children’s birthdays, graduations and weddings. But Jodie Barden has the heartbreaking task of arranging both her daughters’ funerals, knowing that neither will make adulthood because of an incredibly rare illness. Mrs Barden …
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BATIE, MARTHA JEAN (DAUBY) — Mass of Christian Burial 1 p.m. today at St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Anderson. Visitation 11:30 to 12:30 p.m. today at Rozelle-Johnson Funeral Service, Anderson. CARTER, JOHN BERLE — Service 1 p.m. today at Dunnichay …
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The measure is in response to protests by members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a group who frequently protests military funerals, including Kampha Sourivong’s funeral in 2006. Last week, members of the church told KCRG-TV9 and the Gazette that America …
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