'Cream of Wheat' Man Gets Grave Marker
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LESLIE, Mich. - A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name.
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J. David Schmidt Sr. of Wheaton Services for J. David Schmidt Sr., 80, formerly of Western Pa., will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, at Hultgren Funeral Home, 304 N. Main St., Wheaton. An interment service will be held at 11 a.m.
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PORTAGE, Wis. - A woman has been arrested for digging up her dead boyfriend's ashes from a cemetery more than 10 years ago and drinking the beer that was buried with him, possibly out of spite for his family, authorities say.
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Convicted French Nazi collaborator  Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur  medal for services to France, his lawyer said on Sunday,  causing fresh controversy after his death.
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A medical examiner blames a 17-year-old track star's death on the use of too much muscle cream, the kind used to soothe aching legs after exercise.
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He died after a prolonged illness, family sources said. He was 80.
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ALI JEGK, Arizona  - Members of a traditional Indian nation spanning the Arizona-Mexico border are complaining that work to put up a new barrier to secure the border has desecrated an ancient burial ground.
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RALEIGH, N.C. - A medical examiner studying a body in a morgue was startled when the man took a shallow breath.  Emergency medical technicians had declared 29-year-old Larry D. Green dead almost two hours earlier, after he was hit by a car.  Medical examiner J.B.
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GREYTOWN, Nicaragua  - Resting his work-worn hands  on a marble headstone, Nicaraguan caretaker Charly Thomas  points to the epitaph of an American sailor who died in the  Caribbean port of Greytown in the 1850s.
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WATERLOO, Iowa - A northeast Iowa man who filed a fake obituary with a newspaper is headed to jail. James Snyder, of Stout, was accused of submitting the obituary for his girlfriend's 17-year-old son to the Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier last December to get out of work.
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The airman's dress blues are faded, the footlocker he carried through three tours in Vietnam has gone to rust. Yet the epitaph he chose to mark his grave is still as fresh as today's headlines: "When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men and a discharge for loving one."
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A collection of stones is being sent to Australia to form a cairn in memory of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda.
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An artist who last week ate a meal of meatballs made from a dead corgi dog in a protest against animal cruelty said on Sunday his next project involved being buried in a box under a mountain of mashed potato.
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CONVICTED French Nazi collaborator Maurice Papon asked to be buried wearing his Legion d'Honneur medal for services to France, causing fresh controversy after his death.Comment
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OVERLAND PARK, Kansas  - David Lane was only 20 when he died and little-known outside a close circle of family, friends, and fellow soldiers in the U.S. Army.
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NEW YORK  - The pigment that gives curry  spice its yellow hue may also be able to break up the "plaques"  that mark the brains of Alzheimer's disease patients, early  research suggests.
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By Mary Schmich, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 11--At 12:30 Friday afternoon, Feb. 2, Paul Jepsen, an Oak Park police sergeant, got an e-mail from Kevin Landeck, a Wheaton soldier in Iraq.  "Mr.