Ocker Funeral Home Records
Author : Crawford County Friends of Genealogy Organization
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Crawford County, Arkansas
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Author : Crawford County Friends of Genealogy Organization
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,84 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Crawford County, Arkansas
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Author : Abby Burnett
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 2015-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1626743428
Before there was a death care industry where professional funeral directors offered embalming and other services, residents of the Arkansas Ozarks—and, for that matter, people throughout the South—buried their own dead. Every part of the complicated, labor-intensive process was handled within the deceased's community. This process included preparation of the body for burial, making a wooden coffin, digging the grave, and overseeing the burial ceremony, as well as observing a wide variety of customs and superstitions. These traditions, especially in rural communities, remained the norm up through the end of World War II, after which a variety of factors, primarily the loss of manpower and the rise of the funeral industry, brought about the end of most customs. Gone to the Grave, a meticulous autopsy of this now vanished way of life and death, documents mourning and practical rituals through interviews, diaries and reminiscences, obituaries, and a wide variety of other sources. Abby Burnett covers attempts to stave off death; passings that, for various reasons, could not be mourned according to tradition; factors contributing to high maternal and infant mortality; and the ways in which loss was expressed though obituaries and epitaphs. A concluding chapter examines early undertaking practices and the many angles funeral industry professionals worked to convince the public of the need for their services.
Author : Marilyn Winchell Clausen
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Page : pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
Release : 1999
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Author : Williams Funeral Home (Sophia, West Virginia)
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Page : pages
File Size : 43,1 MB
Release : 198?
Category : Raleigh County (W. Va.)
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Author : Frank D. Haimbaugh
Publisher :
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 39,48 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
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Author : Alice Eichholz
Publisher : Ancestry Publishing
Page : 812 pages
File Size : 32,32 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781593311667
" ... provides updated county and town listings within the same overall state-by-state organization ... information on records and holdings for every county in the United States, as well as excellent maps from renowned mapmaker William Dollarhide ... The availability of census records such as federal, state, and territorial census reports is covered in detail ... Vital records are also discussed, including when and where they were kept and how"--Publisher decription.
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Page : 464 pages
File Size : 13,95 MB
Release : 1999
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Page : 2212 pages
File Size : 26,80 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Corporate legal departments
ISBN : 9781561605262
Author : Ronald J. Brown
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 44,51 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Government publications
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Author : Alison Green
Publisher : Ballantine Books
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 44,19 MB
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0399181822
From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together