LEADER 05971nam 2200577 450 001 9910807250303321 005 20230126213427.0 010 $a1-4968-0379-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000478785 035 $a(EBL)4397099 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4397099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4397099 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11155631 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL834480 035 $a(OCoLC)911255310 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000478785 100 $a20160308h20152015 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGetting off at Elysian Fields $eobituaries from the Times-picayune /$fJohn Pope ; designed by Peter D. Halverson 210 1$aJackson, [Mississippi] :$cUniversity Press of Mississippi,$d2015. 210 4$dİ2015 215 $a1 online resource (361 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-4968-0375-2 327 $aCover; Contents; Introduction; THE OBITUARIES; Edith Rosenwald Stern; Alton Ochsner; Albert Walter Dent; Muriel Bultman Francis; Robert Gordy; J. Skelly Wright; Norman N. Newhouse; Allen ""Black Cat"" LaCombe; Caroline Durieux; Walker Percy; John Ognibene; Barbara Boggs Sigmund; Phyllis Dennery; Alvin B. Rubin; Thomas Bloodworth Jr.; William J. ""Buzzy"" Fanning; Victor H. Schiro; Jim Garrison; Carlos Marcello; Ted Wisniewski; Sam Wilson; John Schwegmann; Jules L. Cahn; Hazel Guggenheim McKinley; Pierre Clemenceau; Brenda MacBeth; Charles L. ""Pie"" Dufour; Harry Bartlett Kelleher Sr. 327 $aNellie May ""Jack"" Kelleher Marjorie Roehl; Rosa Freeman Keller; Elinor Bright Richardson; Mary Morrison; John Minor Wisdom; Enrique Alferez; Betty Werlein Carter; Myldred Plauche? Landry; William V. Garibaldi Jr.; Eudora Welty; Jamie Shannon; James Roberts; Ruth Fertel; Charles J. Hatfield; Nehemiah Atkinson; Rodney Fertel; Iris Kelso; Bernice Norman; Homer Dupuy; Elizabeth Anderson; Sunny Norman; Haydel White Sr.; Edward ""Bud Rip"" Ripoll; Albert Aschaffenburg; Harry Tervalon; Iler Pope; Warren McDaniels; Al Copeland; Revius Ortique Jr.; Francis Fitzpatrick; Ruthie the Duck Girl 327 $aJohn ""Wimpy"" Miller Jr. Luba Glade; Connie Marie Thomas; William Terral; Stocker Fontelieu; Fred Feran; Walter G. Cowan; Catherine Clark Mayer; Lambert Joseph ""Bobby"" Gonzales Jr.; Raul Bertuccelli; Sue Hawes; Jean Danielson; Andrew ""Moo Moo"" Sciambra; Jimmy Brennan; Wendy Roberts; Philip Henry McCrory Jr.; Jill Jackson; Bill Monroe; Jessie Poesch; Kathleen ""Kathy"" Vick; Henry George Schmidt; John ""Johnny"" Mosca; Richard ""Buzzy"" Gaiennie; Lala Dunbar; Taffy Maginnis; Yvonne ""Miss Dixie"" Fasnacht; Arthur Q. Davis; Judy Cobb; Barbara Wellam Songy; Dominic ""Dom"" Grieshaber Sr. 327 $aLuvenia Breaux Jack Dempsey; Milton Wise; Diana Pinckley; Myrtle Mary Franichevich Mary; Paul McIlhenny; Frank Polozola; Vernon Shorty; Charlotte Lang; Cyril ""Big Chief Iron Horse"" Green; Andre? Victor Wogan; James J. Lynch Jr.; Mercedes Tucker Stamps; Joseph Sabatier Jr.; Dorothy ""Miss Dot"" Domilise; Bill Johnston; Barry Henry; Liselotte Levy Weil; Elvin Ragnvald ""Vald"" Heiberg III; Ruth Rogan Benerito; Betty Guillaud; Josie Marino Ortolano; George Rodrigue; Charles ""Pete"" Savoye; Emile E. Martin III; Fred Bronfin; Ervin Aden; Daniel Levy Jr.; Mickey Easterling; Ted Sternberg 327 $aCourtney Giarrusso Rowena Spencer; Alden ""Doc"" Laborde; THE FUNERALS; Warren McDaniels; Al Copeland; Revius Ortique Jr.; Lindy Boggs; Acknowledgments 330 2 $a"No city in America knows how to mark death with more funerary panache than New Orleans. The pageants commemorating departed citizens are often in themselves works of performance art. A grand obituary remains key to this Stygian passage. And no one writes them like New Orleanian John Pope. Collected here are not just simple, mindless recitations of schools and workplaces, marriages, and mourners bereft. These pieces in Getting Off at Elysian Fields are full-blooded life stories with accounts of great achievements, dubious dabblings, unavoidable foibles, relationships gone sour, and happenstances that turn out to be life-changing. To be sure, there are stories about Carnival monarchs, great philanthropists, and a few politicians. But because New Orleans embraces eccentric behavior, there are stories of people who colored way outside the lines. For instance, there was the doctor who used his plasma to make his flowers grow, and the philanthropist who took money she had put aside for a fur coat to underwrite the lawsuit that desegregated Tulane University. A letter carrier everyone loved turned out to have been a spy during World War II, and a fledgling lawyer changed his lifelong thoughts about race when he saw blind people going into a Christmas party through separate doors--one for white people and another for African Americans. Then there was the punctilious judge who got down on his hands and knees to edge his lawn--with scissors.Because New Orleans funerals are distinctive, the author includes accounts of four that he covered, complete with soulful singing and even some dancing. 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