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Tag: Woodlawn Cemetery

Urn placed in grave by staff. Credit: Joe Conzo, Jr.

Homecoming: Dorothy Parker’s Ashes Buried in New York City

Posted on September 7, 2020September 7, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

Dorothy Parker has come home to New York. On August 22–the 127th anniversary of her birth–the poet’s cremains were buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx beside her parents and grandparents. In a small private ceremony witnessed by less than 12 people, the urn containing Mrs. Parker’s cremains ended a 53-year odyssey. The story was…

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Dorothy Parker in Woodlawn Cemetery

Dorothy Parker Ashes Return to Hometown

Posted on September 5, 2020 by Kevin Fitzpatrick

On August 22, Dorothy Parker’s birthday, an urn containing her cremains was interred in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx. The urn was brought back from Baltimore, where it had resided for 32 years outside the national headquarters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Mrs. Parker is now interred next to…

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