SIMPLE CEREMONY

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 1, Issue 52, 23 October 1931, Page 3

SIMPLE CEREMONY

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entor's fayourite songs played at his fuenral 3mas edison laid to rest

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NEW YORK, Wednes'day, he late Mr. Thomas A. Edison buried after dusk to-day in the sdalc Cemetefy, West Orange. he cortege, following a simple imony, left Mr. Edison's home •r 4 p.m., and wound slowly about Edison estate, the plant and the oratory. frs Hoover, wife of the President, wnpanied the Edison family to grave. 1 the drawing-room of the spaeiVictorian mansion, where he had i for many years, simple tribute paid to one of- Ameriea's greatpeace time heroes before the ashled family and friends, admidst ftiusic, poetry and flowers he lovhe service opened with Edison's lurite songs, "The Little Grey te in the West" and "I'll Take Home Again, Kathleen," played i violin by an old friend and busi1 associate, Mr. Arthur L. Walsh. fe was more of his favourite ^ from Bach and Beethoven, fol5d by the reading of the twenty'dpsalm, a tribute from Mr Arthur , Palmer, one of his old associates 'ta laboratory, and a prayer.