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monmouth3

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8. Back in the day my grandmother and her sisters all Irish immigrants and the aunts were "in service"
Fri Jan 10, 2014, 10:58 AM
Jan 2014

all knew the Cody name. He was the funeral director and would take weekly or monthly payments ahead of time for my aunts to bury them when the time came. I can still see my Aunt Delia walking to the Cody funeral home to make a payment. I think the grandfather would tell them they were "paid up" long before they were but that was the type of reputation he had. The Codey name was revered in the Montclair area for years and buried all of the family..

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