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Grandiose Funeral Planned For AimeeLOS ANGELES. Oct. 8 (ANS)-The funeral services for Aimee Semple McPherson will be as spectacular as the life of the titlan-haired woman evangelist whose mysterious disappearance was a sensation in 1926.Her body will lie in state for three days beginning today. A thousand ministers of her Four Square Gospel wili attend the services Monday and a group of them will carry her bedy in a 1,200-pound solid bronze casket to a marble sarcophagus in Forest Lawn Memorial Park.The ministers holding the flags of her church will form an avenue of sorrow.” As the body is borne up a hillside, sloping up the pine-dotted lawn will be a 600-loot-long cross of flowers, Its arms Intersecting upon her tomb.Two carloads of blossoms will be used to build the cross which will constitute the biggest funeral piece ever seen here, the evangelist’s followers say. Beneath one of cf its arms will be a 150-voice choir in white robes with a 50-piece band in red,' white and blue uniforms.Special trains will be run by the Pacific Electric Railway from the Angelus Temple to Forest Lawn for the graveside services. !Contributing to the spectacular quality of Mrs. McPherson’s death is its as yet unexplained cause.Aimee”—her headline tag ever since she disappeared in the surf in 1926 and turned up 36 days later on the Mexican border with a story of having been kidnapped—died Sept. 27 in Oakland, Calif. The inquest at Oakland has been delayed until Oct. 13 pending the completion of a chemical examination of her vital organs.The day she died her temple chimes here went cut of order. They’ll not be played again until her funeral.
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Rome Stars and Stripes
Roby, Missouri, US
Mon, Oct 09, 1944
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