Alan Ansen (January 23, 1922 – November 12, 2006) was an American poet, playwright, and associate of Beat Generation writers.
 He was a widely read scholar who knew many languages.
 Ansen grew up on Long Island and was educated at Harvard.
 He worked as W. H. Auden's secretary and research assistant in 1948-49; he was the main author of the chronological tables in Auden's "The Portable Greek Reader" and "Poets of the English Language".
Mary Johnson (March 29, 1898 or 1900 – July 20, 1983) was an American classic female blues singer, accordionist and songwriter.
 Her most noted tracks are "Dream Daddy Blues" and "Western Union Blues."
 She wrote several of the songs she recorded, including "Barrel House Flat Blues", "Key to the Mountain Blues" and "Black Men Blues."
 Johnson worked with Peetie Wheatstraw, Tampa Red, Kokomo Arnold and Roosevelt Sykes, among others.
 She was married to the blues musician Lonnie Johnson.
Catholicos George II of Garni, Kevork II in Armenian, was the Catholicos of the Armenian Apostolic Church between 877 and 897.
 Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi calls him an honorable man who was selected from the Catholicos's household by Prince Ashot I of Armenia to succeed Patriarch Zacharias.
 George anointed and crowned Ashot I when he was declared King of Armenia in 884.
 Upon King Ashot's death, George went to Bagaran to preside over his funeral.
 Ashot's heir Smbat I, who had been away at war, missed his father's funeral and was very grieved.
 Catholicos George went to comfort King Smbat at Yerazgavors, where he would later also preside at his coronation.
 This enraged the sparapet Abas who is said to have spread false rumors about the Catholicos in an attempt to bring him down.
 Abas tried to convince a holy man named Mashdotz from Sevanavank to join his conspiracy against the Catholicos and said he would name him Catholicos if it was successful.
 Mashdotz wrote a long letter in response, rejecting the offer to rebel against the Catholicos and chided Abas for his attempt.
 Hovhannes Draskhanakerttsi reports at this point Abas was struck by an illness and died, as if by divine wrath, and the other conspirators repented to the Catholicos out of fear.
 Around this time Dvin was hit by an earthquake, as it had been during Patriarch Zacharias's time, but this time it destroyed the church of the Catholicosate, as well as many other buildings and people.
Blues Funeral is the seventh studio album by American alternative rock musician Mark Lanegan, released on February 6, 2012 on 4AD.
 The album was recorded with producer Alain Johannes throughout early 2011 and Johannes, as well as other musicians including Greg Dulli, David Catching and Jack Irons, contributed to the recording process.
 "Blues Funeral" was announced for release on November 7, 2011 through Lanegan's official website and less than a month later, the album's lead single, "The Gravedigger's Song," was released as a digital download on iTunes.
Wystan Hugh Auden ( ; 21 February 1907 – 29 September 1973) was an English-American poet.
 Auden's poetry was noted for its stylistic and technical achievement, its engagement with politics, morals, love, and religion, and its variety in tone, form and content.
 He is best known for love poems such as "Funeral Blues", poems on political and social themes such as "September 1, 1939" and "The Shield of Achilles", poems on cultural and psychological themes such as "The Age of Anxiety", and poems on religious themes such as "For the Time Being" and "Horae Canonicae."
Paul Nelson is a Grammy-winning American guitarist, performer, record producer, and songwriter.
 Who has worked with everyone from Eric Clapton to members of the Allman Brothers Band and the list goes on.
 He was in the blues rock band of guitarist/singer icon Johnny Winter.
 He produced and played on several of Winter's albums, including the Grammy-nominated "I'm a Blues Man", "Roots", "Step Back".
 The latter of these won him a Grammy Award for Best Blues Album, debuted at #1 on the "Billboard" chart for Blues Albums and Independent Albums, and debuted at #16 on the "Billboard" 200 albums chart, the highest spot in Winter's career.
 It also won the Blues Music Award for Best Rock Blues Album.
 Nelson was inducted into the New York Blues Hall of Fame and is a recipient of the distinguished KBA award from the Blues Foundation.
 He received a 59th Grammy nomination for his work as producer and performer on Joe Louis Walker's "Everybody Wants a Piece".
"Funeral Blues" or "Stop all the clocks" is a poem by W. H. Auden.
 An early version was published in 1936, but the poem in its final, familiar form was first published in "The Year's Poetry" (London, 1938).
The Funeral (often The Funeral (Dedicated to Oskar Panizza)) is a painting by the German Expressionist artist George Grosz, completed between 1917 and 1918.
 The work combines elements of Futurism and Cubism to show a funeral procession in a modern urban city, as an infernal abyss populated by twisted and grotesque attendants.
 The painting is dedicated to the German psychiatrist and avant-garde writer Oskar Panizza, noted for his play "Liebeskonzil", which draws on the first historically documented outbreak of syphilis and depicts God the Father as a senile old man.
 Although Panizza's works, in which he rejected all militarism and religious authority, were deemed blasphemous by both the Church and government of Emperor Wilhelm II, they were later admired by Grosz and other idealists of his generation.
Arthur Douglas Hair was founder of the Last Post Fund in 1909.
 One of Hair's military brothers, James Daly, died without family or the means to have a proper funeral.
 Hair was "outraged by the callous disregard for the deceased man's past military service".
 Hair wrote a letter to The Gazette and went on a mission to ensure that the military dead "no matter what their lot in life, were worthy of more reverential treatment".
 Now The Last Post Fund provides military men and their spouses with a dignified funeral and burial within more than 2,000 cemeteries across Canada and at its own military cemetery, the National Field of Honour in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, where some 20,000 military and close ones are buried.
The George B. Douglas House, also known as Turner Mortuary East, is a historic building located in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States.
 The house was built for Douglas who was a partner in a cereal mill that became the Quaker Oats Company.
 David Turner bought the property in 1924 and converted the house into a funeral home.
 He was a patron of regionalist artist Grant Wood, and Turner leased the carriage house to him from 1924 to 1933.
 Wood used it as his residence, along with his mother, and as a studio.
 It was here at #5 Turner Alley that he painted two of his most famous paintings, "American Gothic" (1930) and "Stone City" (1930).
 Wood also worked as a decorator when he lived here and designed the interior of the main house when it was converted into a funeral home.
 His work included two stained glass windows that flank the main entrance.
 Several Wood paintings also hung in the funeral home.

Question: Who worked for the man who wrote "Funeral Blues"?
Answer: Alan Ansen