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This is the year 2000. WHen my father died he was taken to a mortuary in Dallas. By the time we saw him in the coffin which was 3 days later the side of his face was black and bruised. And he was enbalmed. He looked like a wax figure. I asked someone in the funeral business why he turned black in that short of time and was told he was mishandled at the funeral home. That he was probable picked up by the head rather than by the shoulders as to why he bruised in the manner he did. I have a distant cousin who remembers when her father died back in 1905 and the proceedures they had to take for his burial. Back then they took the door off the wall and
placed the door between two chairs. They placed the deceased's body on this door so that the women could come in and wash the body. The men would then go in and dress the body. The body had to be burried quickly as they described it as starting to smell within a day of the death. So the body of Jesse went from the home in St. Jo on display to funeral home to funeral train and on view again in Kearney. And the body in the coffin was in good condition considering all the trauma it went through in route to it's final resting place.
Deep thoughts in Texas
Carol
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