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Former Republican Illinois Governor George Ryan died Friday at the age of 91. He will be remembered this week with a visitation and memorial service in his hometown of Kankakee.
Funeral arrangements have been announced for former Illinois Gov. George Ryan, who died Friday at the age of 91.
Former Illinois Governor George Ryan has died at the age of 91. He served prison time for federal corruption charges.
Thursday and held a funeral for one of their own. Following the death of Peter Krause’s Captain Bobby Nash, Athena and the ...
Tributes to a mother and her beloved son who died less than a month apart are among those being paid in The Gazette notices ...
From funeral to ‘Habemus Papam’: What follows the death of a Pope. (Credits: AP) The death of Pope Francis on April 21, 2025 marks the inception of a solemn and historically planned process ...
The Prince of Wales will attend the Pope's funeral on behalf of the King, Kensington Palace has confirmed. Prince William, 42, will represent the British monarchy at the service at Vatican City on ...
including renting terrace space to get the best camera angles of St. Peters’ Square for the papal funeral, which draws a huge gathering of world leaders, prelates and ordinary Catholics.
Though Francis made changes to the "Ordo Exsequiarum Romani Pontificis," the church's book on funeral rites for popes, the three stations, or main moments, of the procedure remain the same.
President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins, Taoiseach Micheál Martin, and Tánaiste Simon Harris are all set to attend the funeral for Pope Francis this Saturday, April 26. Ireland's Department of ...
Pope John Paul II’s funeral in 2005 took place six days after his death. Then-President George W. Bush and former Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush, as well as other U.S. dignitaries ...