son, private visitation and memorial service

[lewsk]

ELIZABETH SIROIS WHARTON, 87, passed away peacefully on May 29, 2010, at Warsaw County Memorial Hospital. She was born on January 19, 1923, the son of Marcel and Catherine Sirois.
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Private visitation will be held from 10 AM to 1 PM at Soames Funeral Home on Tuesday, June 1, followed by a 10 AM memorial service at Soames Funeral Home on Wednesday, June 2.

1. Why is the SON of Marcel and Catherine? Elizabeth is daughter of them.
2. what is Priviate visitation? the visitation is not a part of memorial service?
both are American customs?

 

[Spideyman]

Private Visitation is for close family members only.
It is up to the family to decide if a public or private visitation will occur.


Most funerals have three events, The Visitation or Wake, The Funeral or
Memorial Service, and the Burial. Generally speaking, the number of people who
are considered obliged to attend each of these three rituals by etiquette decreases at
each step:
• Distant relatives and acquaintances may be called upon to attend the visitation.
• The decedent's closer relatives and local friends attend the funeral or memorial
service, and subsequent burial (if it is held immediately after the memorial service).
• If the burial is on a day other than the funeral, only the descendant's closest
relatives and friends attend the burial service (although if the burial service
immediately follows the funeral, all attendees of the memorial service are asked to
attend).

lewsk

 

[Dana Jean]

Is the son thing just a misprint?

 

[GNTLGNT]

Is the son thing just a misprint?

....certainly not and psshaw!....the media NEVER makes misteaks.......

 

[Spideyman]

In a thread on the SKMB, back in June 2014, a member reported the "error" to the error link. Possible correction in second editions?

 

[champ1966]

Not as bad as when Larry David tried to put 'Loving Aunt'