Word: burial
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next afternoon a quartet opened the burial service by singing "God Will Take Care of Him." Father John Dillinger sat motionless in shirtsleeves. The Rev. Charles Fillmore, baptizer of Desperado Dillinger, preached: "I glory that this whole family has had faith in God ... a God of mercy ... so necessary in these days of vindictiveness and hatred." The quartet closed the service with: "We Say Good Night Down Here and Good Morning Up There...
...Kansas City, to establish the reality of divine law, Spiritualist Herbert Tanner engaged an Egyptian vaudeville trouper to lie buried in his churchyard for two hours, "demonstrate" that the dead are only in a trance. Police dug up the Egyptian, fined him $25 for not having a burial permit, $25 for performing the services of an undertaker without a license...
Last week a rich old man died in what the Press called his "palatial home" near Los Angeles. His age was assumed to be 92 years. His importance could be gauged by the fact that before his funeral the Federal Government in Washington dispatched a telegram forbidding burial without its consent...
Death did not end, however, the story of the richest U. S. Indian. Indian Commissioner John Collier had the burial post-poned because Barnett's ex-wife wanted to bury him in California while some of his Indian relatives wanted him brought back to Oklahoma. Before the funeral Hubert Howard Barnett, 27, claiming to be a nephew, asked to be made administrator of his estate. And Mrs. Lowe said that under California law she would demand a 50% share of the estate...
...aunt: "I am glad she is dead but I am sorry she had to go the way she did, without repenting, because she surely is in Hell." Said Clyde's mother: "Nobody but a mother can know how hard it is. . . ." Said the Pentecostal minister who read the burial service: "I have not had the privilege of knowing this young Barrow, but I love...