Page A10 september 2023 FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS Section A “DUNCAN STUART TODD KNEW WHAT WE NEEDED.THEY MADE IT SIMPLE IN HAVING THE TOTAL PACKAGE.” - THE WOOD MORTUARY PREPARATION ROOM Design + Equipment 720-583-1886 info@duncanstuarttodd.com www.duncanstuarttodd.com SINCE 1991 gram’s influence and its potential. The NACG received support from the New York Life Foundation to develop the webinar series on Needs Assessment. They partnered with Omni, experts on this topic, to develop training that is specially designed for organizations serving bereaved children. These organizations are typically seeking to understand the needs of the community and the resources required to meet those needs. The training series offers a complete, interactive learning experience for its students. It empowers participants by providing essential skills and knowledge to properly conduct needs assessments while leveraging the resulting data for informed decision-making and program development. The NACG chose to provide this free training following requests from professionals seeking support in creating assessments and gap analysis in reviewing past Grief Reach Grants. The training is available to all community-based childhood bereavement professionals. Each topic includes a presentation session and a Q&A period. The first session, Community Assessment Overview, begins on Tuesday, September 19 at noon Eastern time with the Q&A on Thursday, September 21 at 1:00 PM Eastern time. To learn more and register, go to www.nacg.org/assessment or visit NFDA Booth 705. Booth #705 Free Training Sessions for Professionals Serving Bereaved Children LUBBOCK, TX— The National Alliance for Children’s Grief, or NACG, is offering free training in the areas of Community Assessments and Data and Evaluation. These training sessions assist you in comprehending the current impact of your programs and the requirements of the communities you serve. The webinar series titled “Community Assessment,” led by Omni, along with the tools provided, and the “Data and Evaluation” webinar series led by Judi’s House, will complement each other to equip you with the necessary skills to construct a more comprehensive understanding of your pro- SEND US YOUR NEWS! info@nomispublications.com seph Laube was the undertaker in Richmond who was in charge of the final burial of Jefferson Davis on the grounds of Hollywood Cemetery. The fallen leader of the Confederate States of America was accorded all the accolades and honors worthy of a chief of state at the several major stops along the funeral train route. William McKinley, 1901 William McKinley was the 25th president of the United States, serving from March 4, 1897 until his assassination six months into his second term. He was the third president to be murdered by an assassin. The Pennsylvania Railroad provided two funeral trains for President McKinley. One took his body from Buffalo, New York, the place of his assassination, back to Washington, D.C. In Buffalo, the railroad arrangements were made by Drullard & Koch Undertakers, who had also embalmed the President’s remains. In Washington, D.C., undertaker J. William Lee was in charge of all funeral services. The second funeral train, which also was provided by the Pennsylvania Line, transported the deceased President back home to Canton, Ohio for burial. McKinley’s funeral services began on Sunday, September 15 with a funeral in the home where he had stayed while in Buffalo, the same place where he had died. Then the remains were taken to lie in state at the Buffalo City Hall. The six-car funeral train departed for Washington at 8:47 AM on Monday, ten minutes after the departure of a light pilot engine, which was sent ahead to make sure that nothing would impede the progress of the funeral train. McKinley’s casket was placed on a raised bier in Pullman 8 section, the lounge and observation car. It was covered with an American flag in full view of the thousands who gathered at the trackside. The funeral train was festooned with black crepe. Upon arrival in Washington at 8:38 PM, the hearse from J. William Lee Undertakers was waiting and transferred the President to the White House. The remains of the President were placed in the flower-banked East Room. Then it was taken to the Capitol for a service on Tuesday. By Todd Van Beck Presidential funeral trains have been a powerful symbol of national mourning. This history is significant because for all of our presidential funeral trains there were unsung heroes, funeral directors, working behind the scenes on these complicated travel arrangements. The United States government was involved in these activities, but until recently, once the deceased president left Washington, DC, the government was basically out of the picture. However, on most every presidential funeral train, a professional undertaker or funeral director escorted the remains. We continue our journey of presidential funeral trains. FUNERAL HOME & CEMETERY NEWS www.NomisPublications.com Monthly Columnsonline at We were all saddened to hear of the passing of Todd Van Beck on May 23, 2023. To honor Todd, the series on Funeral Trains will run as scheduled through the end of 2023. At the time of his passing, Todd W. Van Beck had come full circle in his career having returned to the staff at Cincinnati College of Mortuary Science where he began his career 40 years earlier. He was one of the best known and most well-regarded practitioners, educators, writers and speakers in the funeral profession. Presidential Funeral Trains: The Last Mile The second funeral train – similarly decorated – departed Washington on Tuesday evening in three sections amid heavy rain that seemed to suit the occasion. The first section departed at 8:00 PM with eight carloads of politicians and press; the second, the funeral train proper, left at 8:10 PM and carried seven cars; the third, carrying Army and Navy officers, departed at 8:20 PM. The funeral train arrived in Canton, Ohio at noon on Wednesday. Close friend of McKinley’s and local undertaker John Arnold was waiting at the depot with his funeral coach. After lying in state in the Stark County Courthouse and a final funeral ceremony at the First Methodist Episcopal Church, the remains of William McKinley were interred temporarily at West Lawn Cemetery. Later President and Mrs. McKinley were transferred to the new impressive McKinley Monument Mausoleum. Jefferson Davis, 1893 Since his death in 1889, former Confederate President Jefferson Davis had rested in a crypt within the monument of the Army of Northern Virginia at Metairie Cemetery on the outskirts of New Orleans. But on May 28, 1893, the remains of Davis began the train journey to his final resting place at the Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, Virginia. After the casket had been removed from Metairie by Frank Johnson, the undertaker who had embalmed and conducted the original funeral for President Davis in 1889, the remains were transferred with a tremendous outpouring of funeral activities to the Canal Street Station in downtown New Orleans. The crowd watched on as the undertaker’s assistants carried the casket up the steps of a specially-built platform and passed it through an opening made by removing one of the car windows. At 7:50 PM, the funeral train pulled out of the Canal Street Station. The Louisville & Nashville RR was transferring Davis to Richmond. The four-day journey began, and the funeral train traveled from New Orleans to Montgomery, Alabama on the Western Railway of Alabama to West Point. Next, the President traveled on the Atlanta & West Point to Atlanta, where the undertaking firm of Barclay & Brandon took charge. Then he was transferred to the Richmond & Danville to Richmond including a side trip from Goldsboro to Raleigh, North Carolina, where undertaker Henry J. Brown took charge. Davis lay in state in the capital building before the trip continued. JoTodd Van Beck February 15, 1952 – May 23, 2023 J. William Lee The Catafalque in the funeral car of President McKinley. Booth #1134
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