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Where’s the most unusual place you’ve been for a memorial service?

May 8, 2014

  When I grew up in Waseca in the 1970s and ’80s, I don’t think I ever went to a …

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Last Man Standing

December 30, 2013

I saw this today on Caleb Wilde’s Confessions of a Funeral Director Facebook page, and I have to admit, it …

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Mr. Dufault’s Opus

March 25, 2013

What’s the longest time you’ve stood in line at a wake? Wakes in Waseca are legendary—anyone who had lived in …

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“See Dad dead”

February 26, 2013

I just finished an amazing memoir, Thirty Rooms to Hide in: Insanity, Addiction, and Rock ‘n’ Roll in the Shadow of …

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Wakes move from homes to community centers

January 27, 2013

On January 23, I wrote about the transition from in-home wakes to wakes being held at funeral homes. Probably very …

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The “home” before there were funeral “homes”

January 23, 2013

Thanks to a Facebook friend, I came across the Avenidas Funeral Chapel‘s information page on the social networking site. This …

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More thoughts on the Newtown wakes

December 20, 2012

Other thoughts regarding Newtown: How many parents brought their children to the wake(s) of their classmates? I was eight years …

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