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hits | 419 White Plains Rd, Trumbull, CT 06611
1 203 373 1013
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Overview:
The simple fact that the Abriola's spoke Italian commended them to their community and the business grew. Mr. Abriola would advertise his profession by displaying a small white casket in the front window of his residence and mortuary. During the influenza epidemic of 1918, when victims died by the hundreds, the Abriola's conducted as many as ten funerals in one day. Victims were buried both day and night. During this period in time, all waking hours and embalming preparations were done at the home of the deceased. It was not unusual to see funeral processions led by a multi piece band playing religious marches and dirges, followed by 20 to 30 carriages with the horses canopied and decorated in flowering nets and the driver wearing a "stovepipe hat" moving slowly though the streets of Bridgeport. Generally the coffin was open to allow viewing through the glass window of the hearse along the processional route. Orations extolling the deceased took place at home and at the grave... | |
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