FUNERAL HOMES AND FUNERAL PRACTICES. Pre-canal era. In late May of 1797, David Eldridge, a drover sent out on the Connecticut Land Co.'s second survey, drowned while trying to cross the Grand River.

David Eugene Wiley, 86, of Greenwood, Indiana, passed away on October 3, 2025. He was born on May 28, 1939 in Greensburg, Indiana to Elmer and Edna Wiley. He was a veteran of the US Army. He earned ...

Wiley has announced a strategic partnership with Anthropic for a pilot project to integrate academic and scholarly research into the AI for use as source material. The partnership hinges on the ...

James Wiley, “Jim,” 82, died Wednesday, May 21, 2025, at home, surrounded by his loving family. He was born Dec. 29, 1942, in Utica, New York, to Gordon and Louise Wiley. In 1961, Jim moved to the ...

As cremation rates rise and consumer preferences shift, funeral homes are innovating in surprisingly unconventional ways so they don’t die out. Defying convention, Hamilton’s Funeral Home in Des ...

The artist Kehinde Wiley is being sued in New York by a woman who claims that he sexually assaulted her at a restaurant in 2007. This follows similar allegations made against Wiley last year by four ...

HOBOKEN, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wiley (NYSE: WLY), one of the world’s largest publishers and a trusted leader in research and learning, today announced the appointment of Karen N. Madden, Ph.D., to ...

In a lifetime of groundbreaking roles, Fletcher “Flash” Wiley went from attending segregated elementary schools in Indianapolis to serving as the first Black chairman of the Greater Boston Chamber of ...

Civil rights attorney Maya Wiley grew up in a household that prioritized activism. Her parents' influence set her on a path to a lifetime of advocacy work, but sometimes left her wondering how best to ...

The owners of a Colorado funeral home have been ordered to pay $950 million to the families of 190 victims whose bodies were found decaying inside. The judge in a civil case ruled Monday that Return ...

The headlines were the stuff of nightmares. One Colorado funeral home owner let the body of a woman decompose for two years in a hearse parked outside a house he rented, while hoarding the cremated ...

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