Word: burial
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Widow's Might. In a cream-colored stucco house in suburban Teusaquillo, things had changed, too. There, beside the bier of her murdered husband, Senora Amparo Jaramillo de Gaitan, 35, sat with her daughter Gloria, 10. For days she refused to permit his burial unless Conservative President Mariano Ospina Perez first resigned. Even if she relented, the wobbly government could hardly risk a huge public funeral. Finally Dario Echandia, Liberal leader in Ospina's new cabinet, arranged a solution that Senora de Gaitan accepted: a private funeral this week at Gaitan's home, with burial...
...mining town proletariette (Valli) dies of overwork and the effects of her impoverished childhood. A publicity genius (Fred Mac Murray), who has long loved her but, with a pressagent's shyness, dared not speak of the matter, takes her body back to the home town for burial. He is angry, and miserable, because the picture for which this unknown gave her life will not be released. He bribes every church in town to ring its bells, without surcease or mercy, for three days & nights, in her memory. The ensuing uproar makes headlines...
...cashier of a Birmingham hotel. Big Jim was 36, a widower with two small daughters. He had been around the world as a merchant seaman, had gone briefly to college, had served a short wartime hitch in the Army. When he met Christine he was a salesman for a burial-insurance company...
...deceased, an aunt of my husband's, was "laid away" in the satin-lined bronze casket she had requested before her death. At burial, this was enclosed in a steel, water proof vault. As soon as possible after the funeral, an elaborate marble slab was erected over the grave. The difference between the cost of that funeral and the minimum it could have cost would have seen one of my children through four years of college...
...amazed at the constant peering into the casket by those present and the conversation concerning the deceased as though she herself were lying in the casket and not her mortal remains. One niece kept a 48-hour vigil beside the body while it lay at the funeral home awaiting burial because she "didn't want Auntie to be left alone" Photographs were made of the body in the casket and distributed among the relatives several weeks later...