Purple Directory/Shugar's

07/11/2014

So many jazz musicians and fans want to be buried near Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and other jazz greats that The Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City is developing hundreds of new adjacent burial plots.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_jRoI2NZ0o

So many jazz musicians and fans want to be buried near Duke Ellington, Miles Davis, and other jazz greats that The Woodlawn Cemetery in New York City is deve...

07/09/2014

http://listverse.com/2012/01/09/top-10-occurrences-before-and-after-death/

The human body is such a complex and interesting series of energy give and take. But what happens when an individual’s health deteriorates and finally they come face-to-face with death itself? I am of the opinion that in order to understand how the body runs and operates, it is essential to know how…

07/07/2014

Scooter Rental

Ready Rental Sales and Service

Rowlett, TX

http://www.readyrentalmedical.com/brochure.html

07/06/2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/05/fun-funerals_n_5551967.html

When a friend and fellow mortician died a decade ago, Teddy Lee received an unusual request. By most measures, the widow said, it was to be a standard Christian service, complete with prayers and promises of life after death. Except for one thing. ...

06/30/2014

From left to right, first row: Zenobia E. Lockett (Lockett Federal Funeral Home); Gertrude Geddes-Willis (Geddes & Moss/G. G. Willis); Elmira Strudwick (Strudwick Funeral Home); Mrs. George Llo...

06/30/2014

•Womack, Harry (Harris) b. June 25, 1945 d. March 7, 1974
Composer and Musician. Original member of the vocal group The Valentinos. With Bobby Womack as lead singer, Harry sang tenor and was bass guitarist for the group. He was born Harris Womack in Cleveland, Ohio, he was the son of Naomi and Friendly Womack, Sr. Along with his brothers Bobby, Cecil, Friendly, Jr. and Curtis he began singing gospel in his father's Baptist church, known then as The Womack Brothers. Around 1956 Harry and his brothers were discovered by Sam Cooke who later signed...[Read More] (Bio by: Babe)
Forest Lawn Memorial Park (Glendale), Glendale, Los Angeles County, California, USA
Plot: Garden of Everlasting Peace
--Kevin Weaver

06/25/2014

http://westsidetoday.com/2014/05/28/judge-rules-mortuary-issues-50000-judgment/

A judge today awarded $50,000 to a woman who sued an Inglewood mortuary, alleging her father was buried without the advance notification of his family. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Barbara Scheper issued the ruling in favor of Jamilah Pitts, who alleged breach of contract and negligence by Simps…

06/22/2014

http://ireader.olivesoftware.com/Olive/iReader/DMN/SharedArticle.ashx?document=DMN%5C2014%5C06%5C22&article=Ar00403

NEW ORLEANS — Suddenly people are calling Louis Charbonnet to find out how they might avoid lying down at their funeral. Funeral directors have called; so have people with their own requests, such as the woman who wanted to be seen for the last time standing over her cooking pot.

06/16/2014

This is a memorial blanket for our dear friend Miriam Pipes' brother, George. He was a kind and loving man and will be dearly missed. . .gift from Nancy Burban, Fairfield, CT

06/10/2014

FUNERAL SERVICES
GEORGE H. PIPES, SR.
brother of Miriam E. Pipes
1937 – 2014

Friday, June 13, 2014
10:00 a.m. FAMILY HOUR
11:00 a.m. FUNERAL

Christ Missionary Baptist Church
Dr. Melvin B. Girton, Jr., Pastor/Eulogist
1001 Eugene St.
Indianapolis, IN 46208

Fax Condolences: 317.357.7882
Flower delivery to church on Saturday, by 9:30 a.m.

Services entrusted to Boatright Funeral Service

06/08/2014

Last night I received a call from the Indianapolis Police Department. My brother, George H. Pipes, Sr., was found on the parking lot of the complex in which he lived. Efforts to revive him failed. It was thought that he fell and hit his head.

Details regarding funeral services will be sent in the near future.

Miriam E. Pipes

06/03/2014

Damien Hall and Dr. O'Neil D. Swanson, Detroit, Michigan at the Scottish Rite Scholarship Banquet, the last night of the United Supreme Council Session, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Damien and O'Neil were coroneted together during the session that weekend.

Both are brothers in ROADS, INC.