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Funeral home directors call for law to reduce violence at services - Chicago Tribune

June Williams, director of a Gresham neighborhood funeral home, worries about getting shot at work.In the last two years, Golden Gate Funeral Home has seen several acts of violence, including an instance where a staff driver was shot.Williams sa...

'Funeral Boss' Is 'Pawn Stars' With Dead Bodies - Decider

Bill is a black man with a greying goatee and itsy-bitsy wire-rimmed glasses, fond of Louis Vuitton luggage and matching his patterned ascots and handkerchiefs. While he’s a long way from his own golden years, thrice-married Bill is in the death business, and thus already mulling over his legacy. Specifically, which of his heirs will run the company, a prominent television plot line these days (Empire, HBO‘s forthcoming Succession). At William C. Harris Funeral Directors & Cremation Service, Bill has four candidates—William III, Tiara, Windall and Westley—his vice presidents and grown children with his first wife.Funeral homes have proved ripe for pop culture family sagas before. The affairs of The Fisher & Sons Funeral Home were mined for five Emmy-winning seaso...

Funeral Services Planned for 15-Year-Old - WDJT

Melanie Johnson was fatal struck by bullet fired from outside near 35th and Silver Spring.A service is planned for this Friday at Reid's New Golden Gate Funeral Home on Teutonia Avenue. Visitation is from 10 AM to Noon.Milwaukee Police are still searching for the person or people responsible for her death.

Community Helps Family Of Murdered Security Guard - CBS Local

Tyrone Sr, who was murdered while working security for Canadian National Railway.June Williams said she and another employee of Golden Gate Funeral home picked out the gifts for the children.While Tyrone Jr had been crying minutes before, he joined his brother in wearing giant smiles when they opened Christmas cards with money in them at Sweet Holy Spirit Church.Pastor Tavis Grant said church members want to help Harden deal with the pain of her loss.A judge denied bond for 24-year-old Rashad Williams, who has been charged with Hardin’s murder.

Dying in Dallas: Memorial expenses add to pain, worry - WFAA.com

Crime victim’s assistance pays up to $4,500. That certainly helps families, but it’s not enough for a funeral and burial costs.“This is a major payment,” John Beckwith, chief executive officer of Golden Gate Funeral Home. “If I’m poor, if I’m barely paying just to live, there’s no way you put a bill of $10,000 on me and it’s due to tomorrow.”About once a week, Beckwith encounters situations where a family holds a funeral service on one day and the burial at a later date for financial reasons. He suggest that families buy a death benefit policy to help them pay for the funeral and burial expenses, so they don’t have that added financial pressure.Beckwith says it was heartbreaking when Debra’s family told him of their struggles to raise the money to bury their mother, particularly given the circumstances of her murder.“My heart definitely goes out to this family,” he said.Debra Ann Williams' casket is loaded into a hearse.   (Photo: WFAA)Similar situations are occurring all the time.Joseph Hunt was an innocent man gunned down in his apartment parking lot last month.Because of Joseph’s size, his family had to purchase a larger casket. They also had to purchase two burial plots for him.A stranger donated a burial plot that enabled his family to be able to bury him.Only through the kindness of a stranger did Debra’s family ...