Word: gernhart
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Ever since his sister died four years ago, James Nelson Gernhart had talked of nothing but death and funerals. "Old Jim" had blown a fuse at the way his relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style...
...singers Jim had engaged suddenly backed out and the school board wouldn't let him have the Community Center auditorium. But the publisher of the town's paper was on Old Jim's side. "Some church people think this is sacrilegious," he said, "but old Gernhart knows his Bible and he defied the ministers to show where there is anything wrong with it." Old Jim substituted records of his favorite hymns for the singers and rented the town's armory. Then one afternoon last week, Old Jim invited everyone in to see his funeral...
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