Read original article GLOVERSVILLE — While residents across the state are adjusting to restrictions on everyday life amid the coronavirus outbreak, some face the additional burden of losing a loved one during a time when typical services bringing family and friends closer together to pay their last respects cannot be held. “We are not able…
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Musgrove Family Mortuary: Burials without funerals, grief without hugs
Read original article By Peter Kramer, NorthJersey.com | Apr 9, 2020 Coronavirus is changing how Americans say goodbye Maggie Farley wants to remember the way her father lived — the Denver probate lawyer’s sense of humor, integrity and decades fighting for affordable housing — not how he died of COVID-19 with no family permitted at his…
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McDermott & Crockett: Funeral Homes Turn to Zoom, Creativity Amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Read original article Funeral director Ruben Rey is used to dozens, sometimes hundreds of people, gathering at a funeral. As the owner of Pueblo Del Rey Funeral Services, he deals with mostly Mexican and Mexican-American families. He's sort of a wedding coordinator, but for funerals, helping people and families grieve and pay respects to their loved…
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Woodridge Memorial Park & Funeral Home: At funerals in virus outbreak, mourning is from a distance
Read original article By SARAH BLAKE MORGANApril 4, 2020 LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — No one stands in line to embrace the widow and share memories of her husband of 50 years. No rows of family and friends file toward the flag-draped coffin to pay their last respects. No symphony of sniffles is heard across…
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