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| Description: | Funeral memorial card with one heart-shaped wreath and other floral wreaths decorated with ribbons and cards. |
| 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: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Lester Beck readies the casket for the burial service at Zion Lutheran Church." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Zion Lutheran Church, Town of Theresa. At this moment, funeral services of Herb Sellnow are taking place." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Carrying the casket from Zion, the small country church." |
| Date: | 02 16 1978 |
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| Description: | "Rev. Herbert Lemke and Charles Koepsell, Mayville, lead the mourners to the grave site." |
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| Description: | Black Earth hearse drawn by horses. Chris Schanel, the Black Earth undertaker, is driving. |
| Date: | 1922 |
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| Description: | Chris Schanel, undertaker, stands next to the back of his hearse. A home and trees are in the background. |
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| Description: | View of the Krueger family in front of the old house, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral. |
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| Description: | Portrait of the Goetsch and Krueger families, taken at the time of Grandfather Goetsch's funeral. |
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| Description: | If everything stopped dead — watches, tickers, hands — on every island something new would bloom and another age begin |
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| Description: | You who were spared I talked with night but last about the velvet years I remember from the window The one that is blown is the one gone wild |
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| Description: | His mind wandered without rescue The man is innocent. and had to be brought home to the corner and stapled to the ground |
| Date: | 1900 |
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| Description: | Memorial photograph, showing a draped coffin surrounded by floral offerings, among which appears a life-size head-and-shoulders photographic portrait of th... |
| Date: | 1918 |
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| Description: | Corpse of an elderly man laid out in his coffin with floral decorations. |
| Date: | 06 1997 |
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| Description: | A cross on Highway 110 South of Winchester marks the spot where Tabitha Dyer was killed in a car accident. |
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| Description: | Engraved view of a country burial in the snow. A clergyman reads a blessing as a mourner kneels near the grave. A group of mourners bow their heads. A team... |
| Date: | 1902 |
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| Description: | Group standing outdoors in the yard of a small clapboard church at the funeral of a small child. The child's white coffin, surrounded by mourners, stands o... |
| Date: | 1928 |
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| Description: | Floral decorations for a funeral, massed in the corner of a residential room. Printed on large ribbons adorning the decorations are the words: "Husband," "... |
| Date: | 1925 |
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| Description: | Deceased man's body lying in open veiled coffin, surrounded by flowers, in a residential interior. |
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