Show BUOY BODY IS BURlED BURIED I IN PREPARED TOMB LOS ANGELES ANGEL S March 18 Abel 18 Abel Bennington Crawford who who died in the Los Los- Angeles county hospital aged 88 years a ward of the county will be buried burled today in the shadow of a tombstone tombstone tombstone tomb tomb- stone stone for which he paid 2000 eleven years ago I In 1911 Crawford purchased in Rosedale Rose- Rose dale cemetery here a lot valued at and erected upon it an imposing granite granIte granite gran gran- ite monument fifteen feet high with witha a marble base five feet square He paid 10 to have a marble worker cut his name iame upon it It constituted the most expensive and graceful monti- monti monument monument ment in the cemetery Once each month since then he has I visited the cemetery and inspected the monument For hours he would sit in its shadow and read Sometimes he polished it Then Ihen his plans enlarged He lie went vent to an undertaker and bought a 0 costly casket with instructions it be beheld beheld beheld held for his body He Ho had a steel vault embedding beside beside beside be be- side the monument In what was to be behls his grave Then he drew up agreements with the cemetery officials and the undertaker undertaker undertaker under under- taker arranging for his burial On March 8 he became ill His money money money mon mon- ey was gone He was taken to the county hospital Knowing he was to todie todie todie die he told where his agreements with the undertaker and cemetery officials were According to Crawfords Crawford's wishes there will will be no funeral services His body in the casket he bought so long ago will be lowered Into the steel vault beside the granite pillar where he used to sit and dream |