Funerals

Watching the TV news these days I seem to see them bury someone every week. They always show me more than I want to see. I remember a funeral Ray was going to cover in Wichita. Our Kansas Senator Andrew Schoeppel had died. He laid in state in the statehouse and then was going to Wichita for burial. Ray went with the press group to Wichita in highway patrol cars. They were going to fly but the weather was bad so they drove. The funeral went off well in the church. Then they left for the cemetery. The Senators who had flown in for the service were going back to Hutchinson to fly back to Washington. When they had to make a stop on the way there, they found the hearse was following them and not going to the cemetery. They sent the hearse to the cemetery and the Senators went on to Hutchinson. The group were waiting at the cemetery. The graveside service was a little late but they all had waited for the guest of honor.