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Duneland Historical Society: Dying in Duneland, 1860-1920

  • Hawthorne Park Community Building 500 Ackerman Drive Porter, IN United States (map)

Image of the Flynn-Lundberg Co. in Chesterton, Indiana, from Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church In Word and Picture, circa 1920

The Duneland Historical Society will meet on Thursday, February 15, at 1p inside the Hawthorne Park Community Building where Serena Ard and Angel Goins will present Dying in Duneland: 1860-1920. 

Ard and Goins will discuss the history of funerary practices, the development of area cemeteries and undertakers, and the curious causes of death found in the Flynn-Lundberg Undertakers records.

This program of the Duneland Historical Society is free and open to the public.

Advertisement for the Flynn-Lundberg Co. in Chesterton, Indiana, from Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Bethlehem Church In Word and Picture, circa 1920

Earlier Event: February 10
Guided Museum Tour
Later Event: February 17
Guided Museum Tour