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  • 6 Important Facts We Can Learn From the Funeral of President George H.W. Bush

    This post originally appeared on sixtyandme.com 6 IMPORTANT FACTS WE CAN LEARN FROM THE FUNERAL OF PRESIDENT GEORGE H.W. BUSH

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    January 20, 2019
    Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries, Death, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, Uncategorized
  • Definition of Funeral Service

    Southern Calls is a prestigious funeral service journal. The SouthernCalls.com website has interesting articles and images on their pages that are a mix of old and new.  The Funeral Profession page has two separate pages, The Present and The Past.  The Present page has this as its headline: THE PRESENT Steeped in history, defined by […]

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    January 14, 2019
    Care of the Dead, Death, Funeral History, Funerals, Melissa Johnson Williams, Sacred Rituals, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized
  • Death At Christmas by Melissa Johnson Williams

    Death never takes a holiday.  At whatever time of year a death takes place, it will leave a permanent reminder in those left behind.  Around any of the holidays it’s also a painful reminder of the “empty seat”. My own father’s death took place on Christmas Day. He had been sick for several days but […]

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    December 24, 2018
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  • Madame CJ Walker

    By Melissa Johnson Williams Madame CJ Walker was a remarkable African American woman, a distinguished early 1900’s self made business woman. @Suntimes article about the sale of her estate, Villa Lewaro led me to look at her biography. She is buried in Woodlawn Cemetery, NYC.

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    December 23, 2018
    Female Funeral Directors, Melissa Johnson Williams, The Morte Girls, Uncategorized
  • Green Burials and Responsible Reporting

    We submitted this piece to The New York Times @nytimes as an Op-Ed letter seven days ago and have never heard from them. We are publishing it here so our voices can be heard regarding this topic. Recently, The New York Times published an article: Green Burials: At the End of Life, Thinking Outside the […]

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    December 17, 2018
    Alexandra Mosca, Antidote to Misinformation, Care of the Dead, Cemeteries, Death, death positive, defaming funeral service, Doris Amen, Dying, Embalming, Female Funeral Directors, Funeral History, Funerals, Grief, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mourning, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized
    Care of the Dead, Green Burial, The Morte Girls
  • 3 Myths About Green Burials: A Funeral Director’s Perspective

    In funeral parlance, ‘green burial’ may be the most hyped phrase around. References to this ‘new’ and seemingly popular type of disposition seem to be everywhere these days, particularly in the press. And since we, or a loved one, may be headed in that direction, we might have looked up the subject. Reading those stories […]

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    November 24, 2018
    Alexandra Mosca, Cemeteries, defaming funeral service, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, The Morte Girls, Traditional Funeral, Uncategorized, Visiting Cemeteries
    Alexandra Kathryn Mosca, Green Burial, Green Burial Myths, The Morte Girls
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy

    By Melissa Johnson Williams Those of us who witnessed the events 56 years ago of President Kennedy’s assassination, remember it vividly. He was so much more than just our President. He was of course a husband, father, son, brother, and friend to many. He was a decorated war hero and an inspiration to generations of […]

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    November 22, 2018
    Care of the Dead, Cemeteries, Funerals, Sacred Rituals, Uncategorized, Visiting Cemeteries
  • Rosalia Lombardo

    By Melissa Johnson Williams It was my great pleasure to work on the National Geographic program Italy’s Mystery Mummies. I had the opportunity to work two distinguished anthropologist, one of whom was a living legend at the time. Dario Piombino-Mascali known for his work with the Sicilian mummies made it possible for me to complete […]

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    November 19, 2018
    Funeral History, Funerals, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mummies, The Morte Girls
    Funeral History, Melissa Johnson Williams, Mummies, The Morte Girls
  • Remembrance Day 100th Anniversary of Armistice Day

    IN FLANDERS FIELDS In Flanders’ fields the poppies blow between the crosses, row on row, that mark our place: and in the sky the larks, still bravely singing, fly scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, loved and were loved, and now […]

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    November 11, 2018
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  • Formaldehyde

    By Melissa Johnson Williams From a new study that looks at 30 years of formaldehyde studies. “We now have much greater knowledge of the distribution of endogenous and inhaled formaldehyde at the molecular level. Two such findings are of great importance: (1) every living cell contains formaldehyde and measurable formaldehyde N2-hydroxy-methyl-dG adducts; and (2) there is […]

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    November 5, 2018
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