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Chan, Hong-ming Dennis. "A funeral home." Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 1998. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25946146.

Yu, Tat-cheung Will. "Funeral complex in Hung Hom." Thesis, Hong Kong : University of Hong Kong, 2001. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record.jsp?B25949792.

Chan, Hong-ming Dennis, and 陳康明. "A funeral home." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1998. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B3198440X.

Ho, Chow-lai Barrie. "Necrotecture at the Cape." Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 1996. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B31982657.

Selket, Kyro. "Exiled bodies and funeral homes in Aotearoa New Zealand : a thesis submitted to the Victoria University of Wellington in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in [Human Geography] /." ResearchArchive@Victoria e-Thesis, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/1241.

Sievert, Sheree L. "Preserving bodies, preserving buildings : funeral homes in east-central Indiana." Virtual Press, 1999. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1133728.

Ho, Chow-lai Barrie, and 何周禮. "Necrotecture at the Cape." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1996. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31982657.

Houde, Audrey. "Le travail de production et de reconstruction des mises en scène rituelles dans le contexte de la ritualité funéraire /." Thèse, Chicoutimi : Montréal : Université du Québec à Chicoutimi. Université de Montréal, 2005. http://theses.uqac.ca.

Brennan, Kelly Marie. "The Bucktrout Funeral Home, a Study of Professionalization and Community Service." W&M ScholarWorks, 2007. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/etd/1539626538.

Rodgers, Camillia Z. "Revelations from the Dead: Using Funeral Home Records to Help Reconstruct the History of Black Toledo." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1308683010.

Jackson, Jonathan Carl. "Reforming the dead the intersection of socialist merit and agnatic descent in a Chinese funeral home /." Diss., Restricted to subscribing institutions, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1610650261&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=1564&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

Lanier, Michelle Harris Trudier. "Home going a spirit-centered ethnography exploring the transformative journey of documenting Gullah/Geechee funerals /." Chapel Hill, N.C. : University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. http://dc.lib.unc.edu/u?/etd,1847.

Breckenridge, Robert S. "Organizational change in the Arizona funeral home industry,1968-1999: Density, concentration, and vital rates in a measured resource space." Diss., The University of Arizona, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/280134.

Leon, Alysia Ashley. "Funeral Home or Ritualistic Edifice? An Assessment of an Enigmatic Structure at the Late Pre-Hispanic Site of Panquilma, Central Coast Peru." OpenSIUC, 2016. https://opensiuc.lib.siu.edu/theses/1942.

Partner, Bryan Andrew. "Endnotes." Miami University / OhioLINK, 2013. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1376330691.

Stoodley, Nick. "The spindle and the spear : a critical enquiry into the construction and meaning of gender in the early Anglo-Saxon burial rite /." Oxford : British archaeological reports, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb371998509.

Morales, Teresa F. "The Last Stone is Just the Beginning: A Rhetorical Biography of Washington National Cathedral." Digital Archive @ GSU, 2013. http://digitalarchive.gsu.edu/communication_diss/42.

"Urban funeral'scape: reidentification of funeral architecture in Hunghom." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894573.

TSAI, SHIH YU, and 蔡詩瑜. "Explore the Creative Service Strategy of Funeral Homes – a Case Study of Taiwan-Zoe." Thesis, 2018. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/gud3pw.

Murphy, Kristin Leavelle. "The Living and the Dead: Funeral Work in New York City." Thesis, 2018. https://doi.org/10.7916/D85T52XP.

"Entering the new age of death care--: what else can a funeral home offer?" 1998. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5889403.

Girardo, William M. "Durban's burial societies and funeral homes : coping with the increased mortality due to HIV/AIDS." Thesis, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2079.

Lampros, Dean George. "Like a real home: the residential funeral home and America's changing vernacular landscape, 1910 - 1960." Thesis, 2013. https://hdl.handle.net/2144/13159.

"In search of duality." 2006. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5892436.

"Architecture for after-death: epochal necropolis." 2011. http://library.cuhk.edu.hk/record=b5894583.

Wu, Min-Wei, and 吳旼衛. "A Study on Special Funerals--A Case Study on Home Funeral Ceremony of the Family that Three Generations of Five Persons in Changhua County." Thesis, 2016. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/y5583q.

Gillis, Leigh-Anne. "Cycles of death and memory : creating a modern funeral home." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7808.

Yi-Jhang, Liou, and 劉益彰. "A Research on Space of Funeral Home at Changhua Area." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/27102145169414777186.

Schaffel, Julia. "Continuing the journey: a funeral home for Indigenous Peoples of Saskatchewan." 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1993/31900.

Tsao, Chen, and 曹真. "Taipei Municipal Di'er Funeral Home cremated emissions waste gas proliferation Wind tunnel experiment studies." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/03064794100015498292.

Zelaya, Fernando, and 施飛龍. "Evaluating the Service Quality of Funeral Home Services using P-C-P Attributes Model." Thesis, 2009. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/99705469825585337072.

楊薏霖. "The Research of Training Needs Assessment- A Case Study of Taipei County Funeral Home." Thesis, 2007. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/59057330631858354734.

Brown, Liam David Renshaw. "Death in the City: The St. Lawrence Funeral Centre." Thesis, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10012/6756.

Wang, Yi-Chih, and 王羿之. "Primary Exploration of Self and Hygiene Protection, Occupational Safety Hazard, and Psychological Factors within Morticians Working in Municipal Funeral Home and Funeral Companies in Ban-Ciao District, New Taipei City." Thesis, 2015. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/3672fh.

Chang, Chen-Ru, and 張箴如. "Funeral Home Service Directors’ Personal Traits, Job Stress, Job Burnout and Turnover Intention study –Stress Adaptation as Interaction." Thesis, 2010. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/80512636566662498736.

Lin, Mei-hui, and 林美慧. "From Death to Life- Discussion of The Construction of The Attitude towards Death of Four Adult Residents Living Near the Funeral Home." Thesis, 2008. http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/25876704314641664768.

Santos, Rui Miguel Rosa dos. "Marketing de serviços : agências funerárias." Master's thesis, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10437/9382.

Sampson, David Douglas Quarles. "Troilos Infelix: The Prevalence of the Achilles and Troilos Death Myth on Attic "Tyrrhenian" Group Neck-Amphorae and in the Etruscan Pictorial Tradition." Thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1974/5182.

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It is always difficult saying goodbye to someone we love and cherish. Family and friends must say goodbye to their beloved Cheryl L. Vukelic of Toronto, Ohio, born in Steubenville, Ohio, who passed away at the age of 67, on April 3, 2024. Leave a sympathy message to the family in the guestbook on this memorial page of Cheryl L. Vukelic to show support.

She was predeceased by : her parents, Donald McFall and Shirley Hughes McFall. She is survived by : her husband Steve; her children, Dr. Valarie Vukelic of Gibsonia, PA and Vance Vukelic of Pittsburgh, PA; and her siblings, Patty Lamantia (Pat), Diane Sokol, Dr. Linda McFall and Don McFall (Joan). She is also survived by nieces and nephews.

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Centrist senator from Connecticut who sought to become vice-president alongside Al Gore and went on to support No Labels

In 2000, midway through his 24 years as a US senator from Connecticut, Joe Lieberman, who has died aged 82 following complications from a fall, was chosen as Al Gore’s running mate in the 2000 presidential election , becoming America’s first, and still only, major-party Jewish vice-presidential candidate. That moment was a peak in a career that arced from the liberal left of the Democratic party to the embrace of Republicans.

He identified as a bipartisan centrist, liberal domestically and conservative on foreign policy. The Republican Jewish Coalition chairman Norm Coleman said Lieberman “put principle over politics”, but many of his early Democratic supporters found his later move rightward anathema.

Lieberman was the epitome of Connecticut’s unique politics. The small state was finely balanced between the two main parties in his youth, but the presence of John Bailey as state party “boss” and chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) gave it undue influence, which declined even as the state grew steadily more liberal.

Born in Stamford, Joe was the son of children of Jewish immigrants. His father, Henry, owned a liquor store, and his mother, Marcia (nee Manger), was a homemaker. From Stamford high school, in 1960 Joe went to Yale University , which then maintained a Jewish quota. He became editor of the Yale Daily News, and eventually was “tapped” by Yale’s top secret society, Skull and Bones. Instead, he joined the “open” Elihu Club.

In 1963, influenced by Yale’s chaplain, William Sloane Coffin , he led a student contingent to Mississippi, working first-hand to register black voters in the still segregated south. He also interned for Connecticut’s liberal Jewish senator, Abraham Ribicoff. There, he met another intern, Betty Haas; they married in 1965, by which time he had graduated with a degree in politics and economics and entered Yale Law School.

Lieberman wrote his undergraduate thesis on John Bailey, and, after interning for him at the DNC, turned that thesis into a book, The Power Broker (1966). He described Bailey as “a competent centrist who views political issues as a technician, not an ideologue” – a template for his own political approach.

With the Vietnam war dividing the country, Lieberman eventually supported Robert Kennedy after he entered the presidential race, following Lyndon Johnson’s withdrawal in the face of a strong showing by the anti-war Democrat Eugene McCarthy in the New Hampshire primary. But after Kennedy’s assassination, and Hubert Humphrey’s loss to Richard Nixon, Lieberman joined McCarthy’s Connecticut campaign chief, Joe Duffey, to form the caucus of Connecticut Democrats.

In 1970 Duffey failed to enter the US Senate when the Democratic vote was split, but Lieberman was elected to the state senate, and swiftly moved back toward the party’s mainstream, serving 10 years and becoming majority leader.

He ran for Congress in 1980, but the Republican Larry DeNardis branded him a “tax and spend” liberal, and rode Ronald Reagan ’s coat tails to an upset win. Lieberman would never again be outflanked from the right.

When he and Betty divorced in 1981, he cited the demands of political life and his becoming “more religiously observant” as the causes. Soon afterwards, he met Hadassah Freilich, born in Prague to two Holocaust survivors, and also recently divorced. They married within a year. She worked on health and pharmaceutical issues for Lehman Brothers, Pfizer, and lobby groups including Hill & Knowlton.

In 1983, Lieberman was elected Connecticut’s attorney general. Five years later, he won Lowell Weicker’s Senate seat in a major upset. Weicker was a liberal Republican, and Lieberman’s campaign benefited from the endorsement of the conservative journalist William F Buckley (another former Yale Daily News editor) and his even further-right brother, New York senator James Buckley.

Re-elected in 1994 with a record 67% of the vote, Lieberman soon was chairing the “moderate” Democratic Leadership Council, where he took a very public stance against the immorality of President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky. In 2000, Gore chose him as running mate, partly to distance himself from Clinton, and partly because Lieberman might be able to pull the Jewish vote in the key state of Florida. This Lieberman did, but when the US supreme court shut down Florida’s recount of heavily contested ballots, they gave the state and the election to George W Bush. Despite some criticism back home about running simultaneously for his Senate seat and the vice-presidency, which Johnson had done, Lieberman won re-election easily.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Lieberman called for the creation of a Department of Homeland Security; he served on the Senate’s committee and chaired it when Democrats held the majority. In 2004, he ran in the early presidential primaries, but stopped his candidacy after a series of disappointing results.

By 2006, opposition to Bush’s war was such that, despite receiving the Senate nomination from the party, he lost a primary forced by the anti-war candidate Ned Lamont – an echo of Duffey and Lieberman 36 years previously. But Lieberman ran instead as an independent, and took 70% of the Republican vote (their official candidate registered less then 10%) to win re-election handily. However, many of his Democratic colleagues had failed to back him against the party’s own candidate.

By now, his closest allies in the Senate were Republicans – John McCain , Lindsey Graham and Susan Collins. When McCain got the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, he wanted Lieberman as his vice-president, but was persuaded that “conservatives would be pissed as hell” by such bipartisanship; he chose Sarah Palin to mollify them. Nevertheless, Lieberman endorsed the McCain/Palin ticket against Barack Obama and Joe Biden, and spoke at the Republican convention.

After the election, the Democrats held 59 Senate seats, plus Lieberman’s 60th, which would allow them to overcome Republican vetoes. In return, the Democrats let him keep his chairmanship of the homeland security committee. His was the vote that passed Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act, but the price of his support was ditching the “public option” , creating a government agency to provide health insurance. He was criticised heavily because of his own support from the insurance industry – still strong in Connecticut – and his wife’s career in private medicine.

As an “observant Jew”, Lieberman would still attend the Senate on the Sabbath, though he would walk, not take transport. He was a strong supporter of Israel, receiving the Defender of Israel award in 2009 from Christians United For Israel.

In 2012 he retired from the US Senate. He remained neutral in the presidential race between Obama and Mitt Romney, though he endorsed both Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden in their campaigns against Donald Trump. Lieberman moved to New York and joined Kasowitz, Benson, Torres and Friedman, a law firm whose clients included Trump, and the rightwing American Enterprise Institute. In May 2017, after Trump fired James Comey as head of the FBI, Lieberman appeared to be Trump’s pick as a replacement, but when Trump dithered, Lieberman withdrew his name from consideration.

Lieberman was a founder of the No Labels party, dedicated to finding a bipartisan alternative to either Biden or Trump in the 2024 presidential election. A week before his death, he penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal in which he criticised the Senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, who alleged the “political survival” of prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu had “taken precedence over the interests of Israel”. He called it “meaningless, gratuitous and offensive”, saying it would harm “Israel’s credibility among its allies and enemies alike”.

He is survived by Hadassah; their daughter, Hana; his son, Matthew, and daughter, Rebecca, from his first marriage; and his stepson, Ethan, from his second.

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Funeral arrangements announced for Riley Strain, Missouri student found dead in Nashville

Riley Strain's family and friends will gather in his hometown Friday, dressed in green to celebrate the University of Missouri student's life.

Strain, 22, went missing after he was kicked out of a Broadway bar , launching a two week search that ended in the Cumberland River. His body was found in West Nashville about about eight miles from where he was last seen alive downtown.

Funeral arrangements were announced Tuesday. A visitation will be held Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Greenlawn Funeral Home East in Springfield, Missouri with a celebration of life to follow.

Strain graduated from Kickapoo High School and continued his education at Mizzou, majoring in business and financial planning, according to his obituary. He dedicated many hours to volunteering with a local education and conservation not-for-profit.

"Riley embraced outdoor adventures, whether it was hunting, fishing, or simply enjoying the serenity of the lake," his obituary said. "Riley’s competitive spirit shone through in tennis matches and his budding interest in the discipline of Jiujitsu. Above all, Riley cherished time spent with family, creating lasting memories."

He is survived by his parents, Michelle and Chris Whiteid and Ryan and Milli Gilbert, two siblings, his grandparents and a host of aunts, uncles and cousins. He is also survived by his four family dogs — Miles, Cooper, Vikka and Vin — who "brought Riley joy and companionship."

In lieu of flowers, Strain's family ask that donations be made in Riley’s honor to the Missouri Department of Conservation, with details available at the funeral home.

Trump arrives at Long Island funeral home for wake of slain NYPD cop Jonathan Diller

F ormer President Donald Trump is joining grieving relatives and hundreds of uniformed officers at the wake for slain NYPD cop Jonathan Diller — as he continues to harp on rampant urban crime during his bid to reclaim the White House.

Trump touched down at a rainy MacArthur Airport on Long Island shortly before 2 p.m.

The former president arrived at the funeral home around 2 p.m.

Trump’s presence at the Massapequa funeral home promises to shine a spotlight on Diller’s senseless death during a traffic stop in Queens on Monday, with the slain cop serving as another tragic example.

It is unclear what led to Trump’s expected attendance at the wake.

“The county executive discussed this with the president on Tuesday,” Chris Boyle, a spokesman for Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman, told The Post.

But Boyle would not say if that conversation included an invitation.

Trump’s presidential campaign announced Wednesday that he would join Diller’s family and thousands of police officers from New York City and the region at the Massapequa wake.

“President Trump is moved by the invitation to join NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller’s family and colleagues as they deal with his senseless and tragic death,” said Karoline Leavitt, the former commander-in-chief’s campaign spokesperson.

Trump has been persistently critical of City Hall and President Biden over their presumed failure to curb rampant crime in the Big Apple.

In  an exclusive interview with The Post’s Michael Goodwin  earlier this month, Trump blamed the “radical lunatic left” for ruining American cities.

“The local police are not allowed to do their jobs anymore,” Trump said from Mar-a-Lago.

He has blasted Democrat-run cities for “being destroyed by the migrants” — who have been behind headline-making crime sprees,  including in New York City. “If you want to be a sanctuary city, then you’re not getting any federal money.”

He is expected to cite the young cop’s shooting death as another example of runaway crime.

Diller, a 31-year-old married dad, was on patrol in Far Rockaway on Monday when he was shot and mortally wounded by a ruthless ex-con and  his career-criminal pal , according to police.

In just three years on the job, Diller had more than 70 busts under his belt and was part of what relatives called  “the real Blue Bloods family”  — a reference to the hit CBS series about a family of Big Apple police officers.

Diller, whose brother-in-law and cousin are both cops, leaves behind a wife, Stephanie, and the couple’s 1-year-old son, Ryan.

Visitation with Diller’s family will be held at the Massapequa Funeral Home at 4980 Merrick Road from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday, followed by the same schedule Friday.

His funeral is scheduled at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at St. Rose of Lima R.C. Church, also in Massapequa, followed by burial at St. Charles Cemetery in Farmingdale immediately after the service.

Police said accused cop-killer  Guy Rivera, who had 21 prior arrests , allegedly  shot Diller in the stomach  around 5:50 p.m. as the young cop approached the vehicle he was sitting in at a bus stop.

Rivera, who was wounded in an exchange of gunfire with other cops, was officially charged in the hospital with murder, attempted murder and weapons possession earlier Thursday, police said.

The driver of the car, ex-con Lindy Jones, is also charged in the incident.

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Christina Musil death: Visitation, funeral arrangements announced for DeKalb County deputy

35-year-old leaves behind 3 young children

DeKALB COUNTY, Ill. (WLS) -- The visitation and funeral arrangements for a DeKalb County sheriff's deputy killed in a crash last week have been announced.

There was a somber procession Monday for 35-year-old Deputy Christina Musil, as her body was taken to a funeral home.

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Musil was killed last Thursday night, when a truck hit her squad car.

She joined the sheriff's office five years ago, and served in the Army National Guard.

She leaves behind three young children.

Public visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Thursday at the Northern Illinois University Convocation Center, located at 1525 W. Lincoln Highway in DeKalb, the sheriff's office said in a news release Monday night.

The public can park in lot C2, and use entrance No. 2 to get into the building.

A law enforcement walk-through will take place at 12:45 p.m.

Those wishing to participate should park in lot C3, north of the facility. Staging will begin at 11:30 a.m., and law enforcement will enter through entrance No. 5. They will meet in the Victor E Court.

Funeral services will begin at 1:30 p.m.

"On behalf of myself, and the entire DeKalb County Sheriff's Office family, we thank the community for their outpouring of support," DeKalb County Sheriff Andy Sullivan said in a statement.

Illinois State Police are investigating the crash.

The DeKalb County Sheriff's Office administration will be closed Thursday for the services, and will reopen at 8 a.m. Friday.

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