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Cremation grows in West as a death option
In Los Angeles widow Mildred Harmon joins a rising movement toward cremation. Nationally 1960 cremations reached 60,937, about 3.5 percent of deaths, up 44 percent in a decade. Reasons span cost, practicality, religion, and estetics, with geography and class shaping adoption rates.
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West
Los Angeles
Mildred Harmon
Harmon
Ellis
Dallas
Texas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
West Coast
Saether
Harold Lamb
Tacoma
Boston
Benjamin Petty
Southern Methodist University
Theodore Cook
First Church of Christaan Science
Mrs. Harmon