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  • A 10 a.m. viewing at Temple of Praise, 700 Southern Ave. SE, will be followed by a 11 a.m. memorial service and a noon "homegoing" service.

    DeMorning DeBonis: Jan. 18, 2011 Mike DeBonis 2011

  • Your upcoming "homegoing" and book adventure sounds great.

    Frankie's Spuntino's Wine-Stewed Prunes and Mascarpone 2006

  • The church is also hosting a "homegoing" service on April 15 at 10 a.m.

    unknown title 2009

  • With BLACK folks, we find out what people are about in life at their obituary and homegoing.

    Obama: MJ's talent mixed with tragedy 2009

  • The hour was five thirty; the street ten stories below was filled with homegoing throngs, but up here in the city room of the Globe a momentary quiet reigned.

    Dear Carl Ginny Woods 2010

  • Bearing witness to her homegoing was profoundly sacred.

    Cathleen Falsani: Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Pretty Sure This One Did 2010

  • Sadly, when G, as she was known, fell ill, her family was out of the country and couldn't make it back in time for her homegoing.

    Cathleen Falsani: Do All Dogs Go to Heaven? Pretty Sure This One Did 2010

  • Everyone will have a homegoing and he has had a wonderful life.

    'Stunned silence' in the Capitol 2008

  • We get a lot of tour buses down Fleet Street, so we're used to a certain amount of amplified commentary, but this was different, so we rushed to the windows, to see George Galloway on the rather crowded top deck of an open-topped double-decker, haranguing the homegoing throng about something we couldn't quite make out because we're four floors up and his sound system was really crap.

    April 23rd, 2008 2008

  • Opening my tattered and love-worn Daily Light, I momentarily caught my breath, for on the top of the page I had written 5 years ago, "Dad's homegoing."

    My Father's Bones Belinda 2008

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