Some Memories Just Won’t Die

A cold steady rain fell in Nashville on Saturday morning, December 11, 1982. Mourners began filling the Woodlawn Funeral Home two hours before the eleven o’clock funeral service. The Woodlawn Chapel of Roses held three hundred people, and more than a thousand crowded other rooms and hallways. They c...

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Published inTwentieth Century Drifter p. 231
Main Author Diekman, Diane
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published United States University of Illinois Press 07.02.2012
Subjects
Anthropology
Applied anthropology
Behavioral sciences
Burial containers
Burial practices
Business
Coffins
Cultural anthropology
Cultural customs
Death care services
Death rites
Funeral homes
Funeral industry
Funerals
Funerary rituals
Industrial sectors
Industry
Rites of passage
Rituals
Service industries
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Summary:A cold steady rain fell in Nashville on Saturday morning, December 11, 1982. Mourners began filling the Woodlawn Funeral Home two hours before the eleven o’clock funeral service. The Woodlawn Chapel of Roses held three hundred people, and more than a thousand crowded other rooms and hallways. They competed for space with elaborate flower arrangements that lined the hallways and filled the rooms. Marty Robbins music played softly over the speaker system. Before the service, fans were allowed to enter the chapel and pass by the closed casket covered with pink flowers. A floral arrangement behind the casket formed a
ISBN:0252036328
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