Leonora Carrington, British-born Mexican painter and novelist died she was , 94.

Leonora Carrington was a British-born Mexican artist, a surrealist painter and a novelist. She lived most of her life in Mexico City died she was , 94..

(6 April 1917 – 25 May 2011)

Early life

Carrington was born in Clayton Green, Chorley, Lancashire,^[2][3] England. Her father was a wealthy textile manufacturer^[4][2]; her mother was Irish.^[2] She also had an Irish nanny, Mary Cavanaugh, who told her Gaelic tales. Leonora had three brothers. Places she lived as a child included a house called Crookhey Hall.^[5]
Educated by governesses, tutors and nuns, she was expelled from two schools, including New Hall School, Chelmsford,^[6] for her rebellious behaviour until her family sent her to Florence where she attended Mrs. Penrose's Academy of Art. Her father was opposed to an artist's career for her, but her mother encouraged her. She returned to England and was presented at Court, but according to her, she brought a copy of Aldous Huxley's Eyeless in Gaza (1936) to read instead. In London she attended the Chelsea School of Art and joined the Academy of Amédée Ozenfant.
She saw her first Surrealist painting in a Left Bank gallery in 1927 (when she was ten years old), and met many Surrealists, including Paul Éluard. She was already familiar with Surrealism from Herbert Read's book.^{[citation needed]}
Leonora Carrington found little encouragement from her family to forge an artistic career. Matthew Gale, curator at Tate Modern, singled out Surrealist poet and patron Edward James as the only champion of her work in Britain. James bought many of her paintings, and in 1947 arranged a show for her work at Pierre Matisse's Gallery in New York. Some works are still hanging at his former family home, now West Dean College in West Dean, West Sussex.^[7]

Max Ernst

Carrington saw Max Ernst's work in the 1936 International Surrealist Exhibition in London, and was immediately attracted to the Surrealist artist before actually meeting him.
She met Ernst at a party in London in 1937. The artists bonded and returned together to Paris, where Ernst promptly separated from his wife. In 1938 they left Paris and settled in Saint Martin d'Ardèche in the south of France. The new couple collaborated and supported each other's artistic development. With the outbreak of World War II, Ernst was arrested by French authorities for being a "hostile alien." Thanks to the intercession of Paul Éluard, and other friends including the American journalist Varian Fry, he was discharged a few weeks later.
Soon after the Nazi occupation of France, Ernst was arrested again, this time by the Gestapo. He managed to escape and flee to America with the help of Peggy Guggenheim, a sponsor of the arts.^[8] After Ernst's arrest, a devastated Carrington fled to Spain. Paralyzing anxiety and growing delusions culminated in a final breakdown at the British Embassy in Madrid. Her parents intervened and had her institutionalized. She was given cardiazol, a powerful anxiogenic drug that was eventually banned by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and other authorities. After being released into the care of a nurse who took her to Lisbon, Carrington ran away and sought refuge in the Mexican Embassy. Meanwhile, Ernst had been extricated from Europe with the help of Peggy Guggenheim, but Ernst and Carrington had experienced so much misery that they were unable to reconnect.

Mexico

Following the escape to Lisbon, Carrington arranged passage out of Europe with Renato Leduc, a Mexican diplomat who was a friend of Picasso and who had agreed to marry Carrington as part of the travel arrangements to help her. Events from that period would inform her work perhaps forever. She lived and worked in Mexico after spending part of the 1960s in New York City.^[3]
In Mexico she later married Emericko Weisz. They had two sons: Gabriel Weisz, an intellectual and a poet, and Pablo Weisz, a surrealist artist and doctor.^[9]
Leonora Carrington died in Mexico City on Wednesday May 25, 2011, while hospitalized due to complications from pneumonia.

Work

The first important exhibition of her work appeared in 1947 at the Pierre Matisse Gallery in New York City. Leonora Carrington was invited to show her work in an international exhibition of Surrealism where she was the only female English professional painter. She became a celebrity almost overnight. In Mexico she authored and has successfully published several books.^[10] The first major exhibition of her work in the UK for twenty years took place at Chichester's Pallant House Gallery, West Sussex, from 17 June to 12 September 2010 as part of a season of major international exhibitions called Surreal Friends, celebrating the place of women in the Surrealist movement. Her work was exhibited alongside pieces by her close friends the Spanish painter Remedios Varo (1908–1963) and the Hungarian photographer Kati Horna (1912–2000).
Carrington was one of the last living Surrealist painters of her era. In 2005, Christie's auctioned Carrington's "Juggler".^[11] The realized price was US$713,000, which set a new record for the highest price paid at auction for a living surrealist painter.

Books

By Carrington

• La Maison de la Peur (1938) - with illustrations by Max Ernst
• Une chemise de nuit de flanelle (1951)
• El Mundo Mágico de Los Mayas (Museo Nacional de Antropología, 1964) - illustrated by Leonora Carrington.
• The Oval Lady: Surreal Stories (Capra Press, 1975)
• The Hearing Trumpet (Routledge, 1976)
• The Stone Door (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1977)
• The Seventh Horse and Other Tales (Dutton, 1988)
• The House of Fear (Trans. K. Talbot and M. Warner. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1988)
• Down Below ( Chicago,Black Swan Press, 1972; renewed edition 1988)

Featuring Carrington

• Jodorowsky, Alejandro. The Spiritual Journey Of Alejandro Jodorowsky (2008).
• Elena Poniatowska. Leonora (2011)

 

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Edwin Honig, American poet and translator, died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 91.

 Edwin Honig  was an American poet, playwright, and translator died from Alzheimer's disease he was , 91. .

(September 3, 1919 – May 25, 2011)

Life

He has published ten books of poetry, eight books of translation, five books of criticism and fiction, three books of plays.
He has taught at Harvard University and Brown University, where he started the Graduate Writing Program, and is Emeritus Professor. He is on the Advisory Board of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation.^[2]
His work appeared in AGNI,^[3] Nedge.^[4]
Following an illness, cited by a family friend as complications from Alzheimer's disease, Honig died on May 25, 2011.^[5]

Award

• 1948 Guggenheim Fellowship
• writer-in-residence Mishkenot Sha'ananim
• The National Endowment for the Arts,
• the Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters.
• 1986 he was knighted by the President of Portugal for his work in literary translation;
• 1996 by the King of Spain.^[6]
• 1968-1969 Amy Lowell Poetry Travelling Scholarship
• Governor's Medal (Rhode Island)
• Golden Rose of the New England Poetry Club

Work

• "Pacific Grove; Pinch-hitting; To Infinite Eternity; Turning Eighty; Up Sooner Than That; Elsewhere; On Moving On; Fountain". JACKET (16). March 2002.

Poetry

• The Moral Circus. Baltimore, MD: Contemporary Poetry. 1955.
• The Gazabos: Forty-one Poems. New York, NY: Clarke & Way. 1959.
• Survivals. New York, NY: October House. 1965.
• Spring Journal. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press. 1968. ISBN 9780819520418.
• Four Springs. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press. 1972.
• Shake a Spear with Me, John Berryman: New Poems and a Play. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. 1974. ISBN 9780914278023.
• At Sixes. Providence, RI: Burning Deck Press. 1974.
• Selected Poems, 1955-1976. Montrose, AL: Texas Center for Writers. 1979. ISBN 0916092089.
• Gifts of Light. Isla Vista, CA: Turkey Press. 1983. ISBN 9780918824424.
• Interrupted Praise: New/Selected Poems. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press. 1983. ISBN 9780810815643.
• The Imminence of Love: Poems 1962-1992. 1993: Texas Center for Writers. ISBN 9780916092160.
• Time and Again: Poems, 1940-1997. Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris. 2000. ISBN 9780738895208.

Plays

• The Widow (verse play), first produced in San Francisco, CA, 1953.
• Calisto and Melibea (libretto; first produced in Davis, CA, 1979), Hellcoal Press (Providence, RI), 1972.
• Ends of the World and Other Plays. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. 1983. ISBN 0914278363.

Translations

• Miguel de Cervantes (1960). The Cave of Salamanca. Crysalis.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca, Four Plays. Hill & Wang. 1961. (And author of introduction) .
• Miguel de Cervantes, Eight Interludes. New York, NY: New American Library. 1964. ISBN 0460877518.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1961). Four plays. Hill and Wang. ISBN 0813114098.
• Selected Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Chicago, IL: Swallow Press. 1971. ISBN 9780804005203.
• Federico García Lorca (1974). Divan and Other Writings. Providence, RI: Copper Beech Press. ISBN 9780914278146.
• Lope de Vega (1985). La Dorotea. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674505902.(With A. S. Trueblood)
• Fernando Pessoa (1986). The Keeper of Sheep. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN 9781878818454.
• The Poems of Fernando Pessoa. New York, NY: Ecco Press. 1986. ISBN 9780872863422.
• Poems of Fernando Pessoa. Edwin Honig, Susan M. Brown. City Lights Books. 1998. ISBN 9780872863422.
• Fernando Pessoa: Always Astonished (selected prose). San Francisco, CA: City Lights Books. 1988. ISBN 9780872862289.
• The Unending Lightning: The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. 1990. ISBN 9780935296860.
• Federico García Lorca (1990). Four Puppet Plays, Play without a Title, the Divan Poems, and Other Poems, Prose Poems, and Dramatic Pieces. Riverdale-on-Hudson, NY: Sheep Meadow Press. ISBN 9780935296945.
• Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1993). Six Plays. New York, NY: Fordham University Press. ISBN 9781882763054.

Criticism

• Richard Wilbur, William Butts, ed (1990). "A Conversation with Richard Wilbur". Conversations with Richard Wilbur. University Press of Mississippi. ISBN 9780878054251.
• The poet's other voice. University of Massachusetts Press. 1985. ISBN 9780870234774.

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Terry Jenner, Australian Test cricketer and coach died he was , 66.

Terrence James Jenner  was an Australian cricketer who played nine Tests and one ODI from 1970 to 1975 died he was , 66.. He was primarily a leg-spin bowler and was known for his attacking, loopy style of bowling, but he was also a handy lower-order batsman. In his latter years he was a leg-spin coach to many players around the world, and a great influence on Shane Warne. He was also a radio cricket commentator for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

(8 September 1944 – 25 May 2011)

Playing career

Early cricket

Jenner was born in Mount Lawley, Western Australia. He was first selected as an all-rounder in grade cricket in Perth at the age of 17, playing for Mount Lawley. After two years in grade cricket, he was selected to make his debut for Western Australia, primarily as a bowling all-rounder in the 1963–64 season. However, as the WACA Ground was not conducive to spin, and with England left-arm orthodox spinner Tony Lock playing in the team, Jenner rarely appeared in the XI, claiming only 34 wickets in four seasons.

Move to South Australia

He moved to South Australia in 1967–68, playing at the more spin-friendly Adelaide Oval and became a regular member of the playing team. After three seasons there, he was selected for the 1970 tour to New Zealand, but did not play in the Test matches.

International cricket

He was finally able to make his debut in the 1970–71 Australian season in the First Test of the 1970-71 Ashes series at Brisbane. He did not however make a large impact, scoring 0 and 2 and taking 2/95, resulting in his immediate dismissal from the team. He was recalled for the Seventh, and final Test of the series at the spin-friendly Sydney Cricket Ground, where took 3/42 as England were dismissed on the first day for 184. In the Australian innings he ducked into a short ball from John Snow.^[3] This resulted in crowd trouble which forced English captain Ray Illingworth to evacuate his players from the ground. Jenner returned to bat at 235-8 and made a brave 30, last man out on 264 - giving Australia a lead of 80 runs - and took 1/39 in the second innings, but Australia lost the test and The Ashes.^[2][4]
He was then dropped from international cricket for a season, before being selected to tour the West Indies in 1972–73, playing the last four matches in a five Test series. He claimed thirteen wickets at 26.7, including career best figures of 5/90 in the fifth Test at Port of Spain, Trinidad, as well as making 38 with the bat without dismissal in the same game. Despite this performance, he was again overlooked for the entirety of the following season, playing next against England in the 1974–75 Australian season, in which he was selected for two matches. He had little success with the ball, taking two wickets at 48.5, but showed some of all-round skill by scoring a Test best of 74 at the Adelaide Oval. A solitary Test the following year in Australia against the West Indies, in which he took 2/90, was his last.^[4]
Unable to hold down a regular position in the team, Jenner played a total of nine Tests in a four year period. He only played Test cricket outside of Australia on one tour, against the West Indies. He played one ODI, in which he scored 12 and bowled economically without success, conceding 28 runs in 8 overs.^[2]

Final years

His first class career continued for a further two years until the end of the 1976–77 season, participating in a two-pronged South Australian attack with off-spinner Ashley Mallett. In total, his 131 first class matches yielded 389 wickets at an average of 32.2, including fourteen five wicket hauls and one ten wicket haul. He also regularly contributed with the bat, scoring ten half-centuries.^[2]

Post-retirement

In 1988 Jenner was sentenced to six and a half years in prison after stealing funds from his employer in order to repay gambling debts. He was however released after 18 months.^[2][5]
He then become a spin-bowling coach at the Australian Cricket Academy in Adelaide. As a highly respected coach, he had a massive influence on the career of Shane Warne, and was a mentor to many other slow bowlers across the world.^[6]

Death

In April 2010 Jenner suffered a massive heart attack,^[6] and died at home on 25 May 2011. His funeral took place at the Adelaide Oval on 30 May 2011.^[1]

 

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Gene Smith, American baseball player (Negro Leagues) , died he was 94

Eugene F. ″Genie″ Smith was an American pitcher who played for several Negro league baseball teams between 1938 and 1951  died he was 94. Listed at 6' 1", 185 lb., Smith was a switch-hitter and threw right-handed. He was born in Ansley, Louisiana. His younger brother, Quincy Smith, also played in the Negro Leagues.


(April 23, 1917 – May 25, 2011)

Like many Negro Leaguers, Gene Smith never realized his dream of playing Major League Baseball. By the time Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, Smith was nearing the end of his own career, with an arm unable to cope with the demands of pitching due to assorted injuries.^[2]
Smith was known as a hard-throwing pitcher during a solid career that saw him play for nine different Negro league clubs. In addition, he pitched for teams in Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Minor league baseball, taking a three-year break to serve in the US Army during World War II (1943-1945).^[3][4]
Smith entered the Negro Leagues in 1938 with the Atlanta Black Crackers, playing for them one year before joining the Ethiopian Clowns (1939), New Orleans-St. Louis Stars (1940-1941), Kansas City Monarchs (1941) and New York Black Yankees (1942). Following military discharge, he played for the Pittsburgh Crawfords (1946), Homestead Grays (1946-1947), Cleveland Buckeyes (1946-1950) and Chicago American Giants (1951).^[5]
In 1938, while pitching for the Black Crackers, Smith threw two no-hitters in one day, and in 1941 with the Stars hurled another against the Black Yankees. He also started Games 3 and 6 of the 1947 Negro League World Series against the New York Cubans.^[2][3]
Smith ended his career in 1953, dividing his playing time with the Statesboro Pilots of the Georgia State League and the Fond du Lac Panthers of the Wisconsin State League.^[6]
Following his baseball career, Smith worked as a packer for National Lead Co., retiring in 1977. He also coached baseball for the Mathews-Dickey Boys' & Girls' Club. Then, in 1983 he gained induction into the St. Louis Amateur Baseball Hall of Fame.^[2]
In 1997, Smith and other Negro League veterans were honored during a St. Louis Cardinals home game for their work in paving the way for Robinson to make his jump from the Negro Leagues to the Brooklyn Dodgers.^[2]
Smith was a long resident of Richmond Heights, Missouri, where he died at the age of 94, following a congestive heart failure.^[2]

 

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Paul Splittorff, American baseball player and broadcaster (Kansas City Royals), died from complications from melanoma he was , 64.

 Paul William Splittorff Jr. was a Major League Baseball starting pitcher who spent his entire career with the Kansas City Royals died from complications from melanoma he was , 64. Listed at 6' 3", Splittorff batted and threw left handed.

( October 8, 1946 – May 25, 2011)

Early years

Splittorff was born in Evansville, Indiana. He was drafted by the Royals in the 25th round of the 1968 Major League Baseball Draft out of Morningside College in Sioux City, Iowa, where he was a member of Delta Sigma Phi Fraternity. He pitched for the Corning Royals in 1968 (a year before the major league club existed), and has the distinction of throwing the first pitch in Royals organization history. He went 28-27 with a 4.01 earned run average in three seasons in the Royals' farm system before receiving his first call to the majors in September 1970. He took the loss in his major league debut, pitching seven innings and giving up three earned runs against the Chicago White Sox.^[2]

Kansas City Royals

Splittorff began the 1971 season with the Omaha Royals, but after going 5-2 with a 1.48 ERA in eight starts for Omaha, he earned a second call up to the majors. He stayed with Kansas City for the rest of the season, going 8-9 with a 2.68 ERA.
From there, he became a fixture in the Kansas City rotation. He enjoyed his only 20-win season in 1973, when he went 20-11 with a 3.98 ERA. Splittorff was the starting pitcher in the inaugural game at Kauffman Stadium (known at the time as Royals Stadium) on April 10, 1973; Splittorff earned the victory that evening in a 12-1 rout of the Texas Rangers. After finishing second to the Oakland A's three of his first five seasons in the majors, Splittorff and the Royals emerged as American League West champions in 1976.
Kansas City faced the New York Yankees in every American League Championship Series from 1976 to 1978, with the Yankees emerging victorious in all three. For his part, Splittorff was 2-0 with a 2.84 ERA against the Yankees in the five appearances he made against them in the ALCS. After both teams missed the play-offs in 1979, the Royals and Yankees resumed their post-season rivalry in the 1980 American League Championship Series. Kansas City swept the series, with Splittorff starting the third and deciding game, and receiving a no-decision.^[3] The Royals lost the World Series in six games to the Philadelphia Phillies with Splittorff making his only appearance in game six.^[4]
Never an All-Star and usually overshadowed by teammates Steve Busby, Dennis Leonard and Larry Gura, Splittorff's consistency and longevity resulted in his winning more games than any of them. Splittorff accumulated 166 career victories over a 15-year career with the Royals.
Besides this, Splittorff was known for staring down hitters after he struck them out. He was particularly effective pitching against the New York Yankees, who tended to stock up on left-handed hitters to take advantage of the dimensions of Yankee Stadium, and Splittorff compiled a 2-0 record with a 2.68 earned run average pitching in four championship series against them.
Splittorff retired when his effectiveness faded. At the same time, the Royals had numerous young pitchers coming through the ranks. His final game was on June 26, 1984.

Personal life

After his retirement, Splittorff became a television color commentator for the Royals. He was inducted into the Royals Hall of Fame in 1987.^[5]
On May 16, 2011, Splittorff's battle with oral cancer and melanoma became public.^[6] Nine days later, on the morning of May 25, he died in his Blue Springs, Missouri, home at the age of 64.^[7]

 

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Yannis Varveris, Greek poet, critic and translator, died from cardiac arrest he was , 56.

Yannis Varveris was an award winning Greek poet, critic and translator  died from cardiac arrest he was , 56.
Varveris was born and died in Athens. He read Law at the University of Athens. His first collection of poems was published in 1975. He belongs to the so-called Genia tou 70, which is a literary term referring to Greek authors who began publishing their work during the 1970s, especially towards the end of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 and at the first years of the Metapolitefsi. He has been awarded the State Book Prize for Criticism in 1996 for his book Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984) and the Cavafy prize (2001) and the poetry prize of literary journal Diavazo (2002) for his poetry collection Στα ξένα.

(1955 – 25 May 2011)

Works

Poetry

• Έν φαντασία και λόγω (In Imagination and Word), 1975
• Το ράμφος (The Beak), 1978
• Αναπήρων Πολέμου (Disabled Veterans), 1982
• Ο θάνατος το στρώνει (Death Spread It Around), 1986
• Πιάνο βυθού (Piano of the Deep), 1991
• Ο κύριος Φογκ (Mister Fog), 1993
• Άκυρο θαύμα (Miracle Null and Void), 1996
• Ποιήματα 1975-1996 (Poems 1975-1996), 2000
• Στα ξένα (Abroad), 2001

Selected Essays & Criticism

• Κρίση του θεάτρου (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 1, 1976–1984), 1985
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Β΄ (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 2, 1976–1984), 1991
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Γ΄ (1976–1984) (Theater Reviews 3, 1976–1984), 1995
• Σωσίβια λέμβος (Lifeboat), 1999
• Κρίση του θεάτρου Δ΄ - κείμενα θεατρικής κριτικής 1994-2003 (Theater Reviews 4, 1994–2003), 2004

 

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Paul J. Wiedorfer, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient died he was , 90.

 Paul Joseph Wiedorfer was a United States Army soldier and a recipient of the United States military's highest decoration, the Medal of Honor, for his actions in World War II died he was , 90..

(January 17, 1921 – May 25, 2011)

 

Biography

Born in Baltimore, Maryland, raised in the 2400 block of McElderry Street, he attended St. Andrew's School, and graduated in 1940 from Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. On November 11, 2008, a plaque honoring him was placed in Poly's Memorial Hall.^[2]
Married to his bride, Alice Stauffer, for just six months when Wiedorfer enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1943, he was working as an apprentice power station operator at the Baltimore Gas & Electric Company in Baltimore,^[3] and was living in the 1900 block of Bank Street.^[4]
Wiedorfer received basic training at Camp Lee, Virginia. He was then assigned to the Quartermaster Corps, and then passed the examination for cadet air training. He was training to be a pilot, but the Army switched him to infantry because of greater need. On the way to England he crossed the Atlantic Ocean on the HMS Queen Mary, and by December 25, 1944, was serving as a private in Company G, 318th Infantry Regiment, 80th Infantry Division.^[2][3]

"So I thought, somebody's got to do something. And all of a sudden I said, 'Goddammit, let's see if we can get that nest.' I remember slipping, falling and the good Lord was with me and I got it. I got two of 'em."

Paul J. Wiedorfer
On the Medal of Honor suicide charge^[3]

On that Christmas Day, near Chaumont, Belgium, Wiedorfer single-handedly charged across 40 yards of open ground, destroyed two German machine gun emplacements and took six Germans prisoner. He was subsequently promoted to staff sergeant and on May 29, 1945, issued the Medal of Honor for his actions during the battle.
While crossing the Saar River, he was severely wounded February 10, 1945, by a mortar shell that blew up near him; shrapnel broke his left leg, ripped into his stomach, and seriously injured two fingers on his right hand. The soldier next to him died from his wounds and Paul credited that soldier for saving his life. Recent research has discovered the soldier's name to be PFC Milton C Smithers of Huntingdon, New Jersey. Paul was evacuated to the 137th United States Army General Hospital in England where he was placed in traction. While in the hospital a sergeant reading Stars and Stripes asked him how he spelled his name, and then told him he had received the Medal of Honor. Later, on May 29, 1945, Brigadier General Egmont F. Koenig with a band entered the ward to present him with his medal.^[2][3]

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if the Medal of Honor didn't exist because there were no wars and we could all live in peace? And that the only way to spell war was love? Wouldn't that be wonderful?"

Paul J. Wiedorfer
On the Medal of Honor^[5]

Wiedorfer reached the rank of master sergeant before retiring from the Army. In addition to the Medal of Honor he was also awarded a Bronze Star and two Purple Hearts.^[3]
He returned to Baltimore on June 11, 1945, and was given a ticker tape parade with General George C. Marshall and Maryland governor Herbert O'Conor in attendance.^[2]
After the war he spent another three years recovering in different Army hospitals and then returned to Baltimore Gas & Electric, and retired in 1981 after 40 years of service. He and Alice had four children.^[2][3]
Wiedorfer died in Baltimore on May 25, 2011, at age 90. He will be buried in Baltimore's Moreland Memorial Park Cemetery on June 7, 2011.^[6]

 

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