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William F Hauck

William F. Hauck, who leaves family in Sandwich, died October 16 at Brookdale Senior Living. Mr. Hauck, 86, had lived in Centerville for many years and was the building inspector

Helen L Pekenia

How this last responder learned to livestream funerals, and why

The four-minute video, recorded on a smartphone, captures the sounds of a spring day   a gusty wind, birds chirping.  Less audible are the words of a pastor, wearing blue hospital gloves, reading from what appears to be a Bible. His audience was a small family standing together at one end of a wooden casket topped with a spectacular pink and white floral arrangement. Barely in view, other people stand yards away in formal attire. Also in the audience: roughly 215 viewers on Facebook since the video’s upload. Pre-pandemic, at least some of those people might have been at the gravesite, grieving alongside one another, providing comfort with hugs and memories of the loved one lost.

Dennis D Brandao

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