Tag: Funerals and Memorials

Trump Calls for Crime Crackdown at Wake of NYPD Officer Jonathan Diller

As hundreds of police officers and family members stood outside a Long Island funeral home, former President Donald J. Trump attended on Thursday the wake of a New York City police officer who was killed in the line of duty days earlier. Then, Mr. Trump, who is facing four criminal cases, including one in Manhattan […]

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83 Years After His Killing, a Black Soldier Gets an Army Funeral

In a Georgia cemetery, surrounded by tombstones cracked and worn by decades of rain and sun, Pvt. Albert King’s gleams new and bright. The Army unveiled it Sunday in a full military funeral, 83 years late. Since 1941 his body has rested in an unmarked grave near the military base where a white military police […]

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Russians Flock to Navalny’s Grave as They Grapple With His Legacy

Marina, a Moscow lawyer, decided to stay home when the Russian opposition leader Aleksei A. Navalny was buried last Friday. She had expected a big crowd and widespread arrests at the Borisovsky Cemetery, given Russia’s current climate of repression, and thought it would be better to pay her respects another day. She wasn’t alone in […]

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Kremlin Seeks to Suppress Navalny’s Influence, in Death as in Life

When Aleksei A. Navalny was alive, the Kremlin sought to portray him as an inconsequential figure unworthy of attention, even as the Russian authorities vilified and attacked him with a viciousness that suggested the opposite. In death, little appears to have changed. President Vladimir V. Putin has not said a word in public about Mr. […]

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Weary but Determined, Ukrainians Vow Never to Bow to Russia

When Russian missiles struck the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv a couple of weeks ago, schoolchildren and their teachers installed in newly built underground classrooms did not hear a thing. Down in the bowels of Kharkiv’s cavernous, Soviet-era subway stations, the city administration has built a line of brightly decorated classrooms, where 6- and 7-year-olds are […]

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U.S. Strike Killed Afghans Recruited to Fight for Iran

It was a memorial for the “martyrs” killed when the U.S. struck military bases in Syria, according to Iranian state television. A small crowd sat in rows of folding chairs, men in the front and women in the back, at the main cemetery in Tehran, the Iranian capital, earlier this month. Children milled around and […]

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NY Archdiocese Condemns Funeral of Cecilia Gentili, a Transgender Activist

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York condemned the funeral of a transgender community leader that was held at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Thursday, calling the event an insult to the Catholic faith and saying it was unaware of the identity of the deceased when it agreed to host the service. The funeral, which drew […]

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At St. Patrick’s Cathedral, a Funeral Was Held for Cecilia Gentili, a Transgender Activist

The pews of St. Patrick’s Cathedral were packed on Thursday for an event with no likely precedent in Catholic history: the funeral of Cecilia Gentili, a transgender activist and actress, former sex worker and self-professed atheist whose memorial functioned as both a celebration of her life and an exuberant piece of political theater. Over 1,000 […]

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Amid a Fraught Process, Penn Museum Entombs Remains of 19 Black People

There was very little that could be said about the 19 people who were eulogized on Saturday morning in a service at the University of Pennsylvania. Their names were lost, and not much about their lives was known beyond the barest facts: an old age spent in the poorhouse, a problem with cavities. They were […]

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Will a New Monument for Those Enslaved by France Heal or Divide?

As the color drained from the sky, a group gathered before the white-stoned basilica of St. Denis, where dozens of French kings are buried, to pay homage to their ancestors. Not to King Louis XIII, who formerly authorized the slave trade in 1642, or his son, the Sun King, who introduced slavery’s legal code, both […]

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New York Food Delivery Workers, Overlooked in Life, Are Honored in Death

After the brass band packed up its instruments, Sergio Solano and two other food delivery workers walked a white bicycle to an overpass within view of the United Nations headquarters. A fellow worker, or compañero, as they call each other meaning “partner,” had died less than two weeks earlier that September in yet another bicycle […]

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As Gaza Losses Mount Under Israeli Strikes, Proper Burials Are Another Casualty

For four days, Kareem Sabawi’s body lay wrapped in a blanket in a cold, empty apartment as his family sheltered nearby. He was killed during intense Israeli bombardment near his family home, his father and mother said, and in the days that followed, it was too dangerous to step outside and lay their 10-year-old child […]

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Justice O’Connor, the First Woman on the Supreme Court, Lies in Repose

Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman on the Supreme Court, lay in repose on Monday in the court building where she served for decades, often as the ideological center, making her one of the most powerful women in America. The Supreme Court justices, former law clerks and the public gathered on a blustery morning […]

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In Soldiers’ Remains, Russia Plots a Way to Reconcile With France

On a recent cloudy afternoon, the remains of three Russian soldiers were buried in virtual secrecy in a small corner of northeastern France. There were no Russian officials at the funeral. No Russian flag was hoisted. No Russian anthem was played. The soldiers had died on the French battlefield more than a century ago, fighting […]

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A Russian Village Buries a Soldier, and Tries to Make Sense of the War

A cold wind was blowing across the steppe, but Sapura Kadyrova didn’t see the point in bundling up. She was waiting to greet her son, who was arriving home from the war in a crimson government-issued casket. “So maybe I won’t be warm,” Ms. Kadyrova, 85, moaned. “Then just let me die.” All day long, […]

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Rosalynn Carter Funeral: Former First Lady Remembered and Buried in Plains, Georgia

To them, she was more than a first lady. Rosalynn Carter was the wife with strong opinions and few reservations about sharing them, the mother who had to intervene when her eldest son’s catastrophic attempt at baking a cake led to a kitchen fire, the grandmother who kept a stash of blueberries in the freezer […]

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Rosalynn Carter to Be Honored by Presidents and Fellow First Ladies

Former President Jimmy Carter will emerge from hospice care to join some of his successors and every living presidential spouse on Tuesday to honor Rosalynn Carter, his wife and partner of more than three-quarters of a century and the nation’s first lady from 1977 to 1981, the Carter Center said. Mr. Carter, who turned 99 […]

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It’s OK to Never ‘Get Over’ Your Grief

Queen Victoria wore black for the remaining four decades of her life after her beloved husband, Prince Albert, died in 1861. This mourning practice was still commonplace during the first decades of the 20th century but almost nonexistent by its end. My great-grandmother, who died in 1999, was the only person I knew who wore […]

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Where the 9/11 Dead Are Not Forgotten at Guantánamo Bay

Stones and seashells for people killed in the Sept. 11 attacks began appearing at a signpost at Guantánamo Bay a few years ago, not far from the courtroom for war crimes cases. “In memory of all those who died of post-9/11 illness,” says a message inscribed on a chunk of coral. “Yeneneh Betru — Jan. […]

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Former President Trump Attends His Sister’s Funeral

More than 100 mourners streamed into the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in Manhattan on Friday morning for the memorial service of Maryanne Trump Barry, a longtime federal judge and an older sister of Donald J. Trump. The former president was among those who attended. He arrived, along with his wife, Melania, and other family […]

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Rashida Tlaib, Censured by the House, Is Praised and Condemned at Home

For more than a month, the suburbs of Detroit have played host to vigils where victims of the war between Israel and Hamas are commemorated with prayers, candles and tearful speeches. But those vigils have told starkly differing stories about the war, and also about Rashida Tlaib, who represents the area and is the only […]

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Halloween Celebrations Subdued in Itaewon One-Year After Tragedy

Seoul marked a somber anniversary over the weekend, a year after nearly 160 people died in a crowd surge in Itaewon, a popular nightlife district in the city. Oct. 29, 2022, had started as a long-awaited Halloween celebration — the first in several years in South Korea that was free of pandemic restrictions. A mass […]

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In Israel and Gaza, Photos Show the Human Cost of War

Times Insider explains who we are and what we do and delivers behind-the-scenes insights into how our journalism comes together. Bodies in black bags, lined up on the ground in the Israeli village of Kfar Azza. A woman holding the body of her grandson in Khan Younis, Gaza. Devastated mourners at a funeral for their […]

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No Evidence of Hate Crime Has Emerged in Killing of Synagogue Leader, Officials Say

One day after the fatal stabbing of the leader of a synagogue in Detroit, authorities on Sunday said no evidence had emerged that suggested the killing was motivated by antisemitism. But James White, the chief of the Detroit Police, said that his department and the Michigan State Police were still investigating the death of the […]

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Funeral Planned for Illinois Boy Killed in Suspected Anti-Muslim Hate Crime

A Palestinian American family in Illinois was preparing on Monday for the funeral of a 6-year-old boy who the authorities said was stabbed to death in an attack motivated by hate for Muslims and the fighting in Israel and Gaza. A funeral for the boy, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was scheduled for Monday afternoon at a mosque […]

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‘I Have to Do Better.’ A Young Father Was Rebuilding His Life When the Flames Came.

There is much to say about a 28-year-old father who died. Start with his troubles — the kind that left him struggling with a drug habit and put distance between him and his two boys. Yes, he made disappointing choices. Start with those details, because they illustrate the beauty of a young man with a […]

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In Hroza, Ukraine, ‘All My Relatives Are Dead’

Beside newly dug graves in a cemetery, villagers had propped cardboard signs on sticks. “Taken,” one sign said simply of an open grave. “Taken, three people from the Mukhovaty” family, read another. Days after a Ukrainian village lost a sixth of its population in a missile strike, nearly every resident was grieving lost relatives, houses […]

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Stoneman Willie Gets a Proper Burial and a Name

For 128 years, he has been known only as Stoneman Willie, a figure lying in an open coffin in a Reading, Pa., funeral home, leathery and as hardened as his nickname suggests. Little was known about him, other than he was picked up while drunkenly walking the streets of Reading one night in October 1895 […]

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115 Decaying Bodies Found in ‘Horrific’ Scene at Funeral Home, Officials Say

A foul smell led investigators to find at least 115 decaying bodies at a funeral home in rural Colorado that had promised “green” burials, officials said on Friday, describing the scene as “horrific.” Randy Keller, the Fremont County coroner, said it could take months to determine the identities of the deceased through fingerprints, dental records […]

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