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| Date: | 12 06 1960 |
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| Description: | Members of the Wisconsin State Journal staff carry the coffin bearing the body of editor Roy L. Matson from St. Andrews Episcopal Church. Rector Rob... |
| Date: | 12 12 1944 |
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| Description: | Large group of U.S. Naval Training School (Radio) trainees, at the Van Hise dormitories, standing at the gravesite of Sparky, with four men carrying the co... |
| Date: | 11 11 1918 |
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| Description: | The Armistice Day parade is heading down Main Street. This float shows German Kaiser Wilhelm II's coffin. A group of joyful men and woman are riding on the... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Rose Caroline Muskat Marcou saying her final goodbyes at the open casket of David A. Marcou, her husband of 65 years, inside the St. James Church. |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Father Robert Schaller is reading a blessing over the closed casket of David Marcou's father, David A. Marcou, which is awaiting burial in Gate of Heaven C... |
| Date: | 03 13 2015 |
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| Description: | Father Robert Schaller is standing next to a casket holding the body of David Marcou's father, David A. Marcou inside St. James Church. There are flower ar... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a small, light-colored casket resting on a table covered with a drape. The coffin is surrounded by flowers and flower arrangements on tables... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a small, light-colored casket resting on a table covered with a drape. The coffin is surrounded by flowers and flower arrangements on tables... |
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| Description: | Indoor view of a flower-draped casket in a room with walls covered with photographs. |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Lester Beck readies the casket for the burial service at Zion Lutheran Church." |
| Date: | 02 15 1978 |
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| Description: | "On Feb. 13, Herbert Sellnow died unexpectedly at the age of 57 years, 11 months, and 16 days. As events turned out, this was the last funeral in the Beck ... |
| Date: | 06 1962 |
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| Description: | Large funeral for multiple people in Binh Hung, Vietnam. Numerous decoratively painted coffins with cloth coverings are on display in a large open-air, roo... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | A coffin cart photographed by Sigurd Olson while traveling, probably in Germany, shortly after the end of the World War II. |
| Date: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | The funeral for the fire victims of the Bedford Street fire was finalized in the Middleton Junction Cemetery. The caskets are shown as the mourners await t... |
| Date: | 12 01 1948 |
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| Description: | Dr. Charles A. Puls, pastor of Luther Memorial church, 1021 University Avenue, looks down on the caskets of a mother and her three children, during funeral... |
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| Description: | Dead soldier in a glass fronted coffin during the Cuban Revolution. |
| Date: | 05 04 1937 |
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| Description: | Two men wearing suits and hats are placing a coffin into the back of an International D-2 hearse marked: "Doom Bros." The hearse is parked in front of a la... |
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