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Show PILOT'SASHESSTREWED ALONG MAIL ROUTE Funeral Services for Grahajn Held Last Friday at GlendaJe, California. The ashes of Maurice Graham, Western Air Express pilot, and former world war flier were scattered scat-tered along the Gait T t, s-Los Angeles An-geles mail route, toy Fred Kelly, Saturday night. Somewhere enroute with the east bound mail Kelly's hand reached for a tiny urn entrusted to him as the mail was loaded. The urn was opened and Graham's ashes were offered to the mountain wind. The final rites Tor the dead flier were at the wish of Mrs. Graham, who with her two small children, attended the simple funeral services ser-vices Friday afternoon at Forest Lawn memorial cemetery. The services were conducted jointly by the Christian Science church and the Masonic lodge. Brother pilots of the Western Air paid their final tribute to Graham in an impressive air maneuver. man-euver. The soared their planes high into the air. shut off the motors and glided silently for a minute. Wrapped in the flag he served during the world war Graham's remains were taken from Cedar City to Los Angeles last Thursdn in a giant tri-motored plane, piloted pi-loted toy men with whom he had flown the Los Angeles-Salt Lake air mail for two years. |
