Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 262, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1915 — FUNERAL FOR PET PARROT [ARTICLE]

FUNERAL FOR PET PARROT

Embalmed Bird, in Casket With Silver Plate, Is Buried in Woman’s Family Plot. San Rafael, Gal. —Funeral services over the body of the late "Little Boy Blue,” a pet parrot of Mrs. T. L. Crane, wife of a local garage owner, were held here and interment followed in the Crane family plot in Santa Rosa. “Little Boy Blue” died at the Crane home after a lingering illness. Coroner F. E. Sawyer was called in to take charge of the body, which, followed by an automobile load of mourners, was taken to the morgue and embalmed. A special casket was constructed, lined with silk and fitted with a silver memorial plate. The bird had been in the Crane family for nine years. Mrs. Crane is said to be ill as a result of its taking off.