Nation IN BRIEF : FLORIDA : Phone Threat Cited in Cemetery Switch
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Survivors of a 104-year-old black woman decided not to bury her in an all-white cemetery in Esto, Fla., after a family member received a telephoned threat, friends said. The obituary of Ada Dupree in the Dothan (Ala.) Eagle said she would be buried in the all-white Esto Town Cemetery. Later, a funeral home spokesman in Dothan said the information was erroneous.
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