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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Bring’s Broadway Chapel: Funeral homes prepare for COVID cases
Read original article By: Craig Smith TUCSON, Ariz. - With death rates up, it’s inevitable the coronavirus crisis will reach the funeral homes. KGUN9 On Your Side’s Craig Smith talked to one well known mortuary on how it’s preparing and how the virus has affected even funerals where COVID was not the cause of death. Coronavirus…
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