Cemetery rests in peace
WYUKA from Page 5
the dedication of the Eternal Flame on
Nov. 11, Veteran’s Day. The Eternal
Flame was extinguished on Decem
ber 27, 1972, because of the energy
crisis.
In 1894, local medical students
robbed a grave to obtain a corpse for
dissection at school. Fortunately, the
corpse was returned before they
rolled up their sleeves and got down to
their grisly business.
It’s rumored that high school de
linquents sometimes try to sneak in
after closing, especially around Hal
loween, to commit unspeakable acts
of profanity and stupidness. But they
arc warned by their peers that it’s
dangerous. Some say there are ma
levolent Doberman pinschers that
prowl the graveyards at night, to
guard the clientele, and perhaps to
add to the customer demand.
However, most people arc too
frightened by the eerie atmosphere of
the blackened graveyard, and the
possibility of arrest, to attempt entry.
Although Wyuka is still consid
ered a state cemetery, it is now self
supporting. Business is fairly steady,
averaging more than one burial a day,
400-600 annually.
It may be presumed that most
people become morticians for several
ordinary reasons; family tradition,
steady work, but above all, job secu
rity.
Since Wyuka is a stale cemetery,
employee turnover is slow. People are
often appointed for life, so one can
expect stiff competition in this par
ticular job market.
Wyuka, “place of rest,” is a vari
ation of the Sioux Indian word
“wynoka,” meaning “to lie down.”
Indeed, Wyuka waits patiently, as the
mausoleum of thousands of lost souls,
who hopefully find peace at last in the
sweet embrace of ocher.
A stark-raving-mad man talks
3TARKRAVING from Page 11
say he stopped breathing around
midnight, instead of listing a more
specific time? If Charles Stark
weather is dead, Hogswid asks,
who’s been paying my medical bills
for the past three years?
These are questions worth pon
dering. But few are allowed to pon
der Hogswid’s questions, because
Hogswid was incarcerated in Sunny
Aspens home in Lawndale, Ne
braska last year, some think un
fairly.
Niles Foster, a close friend of
Hogswid, has fought to have
Hogswid released for months now,
claiming that if the grave was
opened, his friend would be proven
sane and prudent.
“Dave Hogswid is as sane as you
an’ me,” Foster claims. “Maybe
more sane even.”
As Foster andHogswidpaddown
the hall in their slippers, one won
ders where the truth lies. Does it lie
in the mess of bureaucratic forms
stuffed into file cabinets by careless
hands?
When Hogswid and Foster return
from their meal, they seem renewed.
Hogswid, animated, tells about the
first time he met he met Charles
Starkweather.
“He wasn’t the son of a guy that
just dies,” Hogswid said. “He kicks
around a little an’ he makes some
noise. He was that way when he was
a boy and he sure as heaven was that
way in July of *59.”
The way Hogswid tells it, Stark
weather wasn’t the sort of person
who would die easily. He had con
li. ^
nections and could easily have
rigged it so that not very many volts
were shot through him in the chair.
“And there’s always the other
guy,” Hogswid said.
It is Hogswid’s belief that some
body died that night, someone who
may have claimed to be Stark
weather.
“Probably thought it would im
press someone,” Hogswid
shrugged.
There is a question that remains,
and I put it to Hogswid bluntly.
“You were put in this home be
cause you believed Charles Stark
weather is still alive. If it’s neces
sary to prove that you’re not insane,
do you think grave 996 should be
exhumed?
Hogswid’s face was livid.
“Oh, no, don’t let him out...”
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