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Article: JAMES HADLEY, 70, LONGTIME FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- March 25, 2004
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James S. Hadley, 70, an unflappable funeral director who escorted
hundreds of Bostonians to their final resting places, died of
respiratory failure March 4 in a Boston nursing home.
"He let nothing bother him," his wife, Florence (Avent) Taylor
Hadley, said yesterday.
The only child of James and Lucy (Thorpe) Hadley, Mr. Hadley was
born in Boston. He was inspired to enter the business by his father,
also a funeral director.
After graduating from English High School, he served in the Army
from 1956 to 1958, before entering New England Institute of Applied
Arts and Sciences.
He worked as a funeral director for 35 years and was affiliated
with the J.B. Johnson Funeral Home when he retired about ...