Word Of The Day

Columbarium:

A columbarium (pl. columbaria) is a place for the respectful and usually public storage of cinerary urns (i.e., urns holding a deceased’s cremated remains). The term comes from the Latincolumba” (dove) and originally referred to compartmentalized housing for doves and pigeons called a dovecote. [Wikipedia]

Encountered in the Wikipedia entry for actor Gerald Mohr:

Mohr flew to Stockholm in September 1968, to star in the pilot of a proposed television series, Private Entrance, featuring Swedish actress Christina Schollin.[4]

Shortly after the completion of filming, Mohr died of a heart attack in the evening of November 9, 1968, in Södermalm, Stockholm, aged 54. Mohr is interred in the columbarium of Lidingö Kyrkogård on the island of Lidingö, Sweden.

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