Claudia Mae Swift, age 85, passed away Sunday, June 18th. Memorial service on Tuesday, June 27th at 3:00 pm at Reid's Golden Gate Funeral Home, 5665 North Teutonia Ave Milwaukee, WI 53209.

Arthur Reid Jr. was 13 when his family relocated to Milwaukee in the 1950s and the future business leader in the city's African American community soon discovered where he wanted to make his mark.

John Beckwith Jr. walks into his morgue and over to the new corpse. His colleagues and pastor follow him inside, still talking from lunch. The air in the morgue stirs and rattles a paper sign taped to ...

John Beckwith Jr. has already outlined some of his own funeral plans, which include encasing his body in a glass casket. Like a Pope in the Vatican, he will be on display and wear a “death mask.” But ...