Friday, August 28, 2009

The other famous funeral I know about

When I was growing up in Topeka, we were honored by having the vice president of the United States from Topeka. It was Charles Curtis. He was a Kaw Indian. They wrote a play about him on Broadway and mentioned he only got in the White House with tours. We in Topeka were proud of him. He was born in 1860 and died in 1933. At this time my father had bought a Packard from a friend who was having a divorce battle with her husband who would not give her any money to live on. When Curtis died, the funeral home wanted to borrow the car. It had jump seats. They wanted it for the pallbearers to ride in. Curtis laid in state in the Capitol building. Our car was in the newsreels and we wanted to see it so we all went to the Jayhawk Theater so we could see the newsreel and see our car. It looked great. We were very proud of our car. I wonder what the movie was?

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