Evening star., 1947-04-09
ThousandsP Pay Tribute
10 Henry Ford in Quiet
Greenfield Village
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DETROIT, April 8. Henry
Ford, honored in death as he was
in life, received the Anal tributes
today of his fellow citizens and
workers.
In shis Greenfield Village Mr..
Ford's body 5ay in state where
thousands could file past the bier
Of the industrial genius who died
In his s4th year Of cerebral hem
orrhaee Monday night.
At Greenfield Village were many
Of the things Mr.. Ford loved, in
cluding the little white frame house
in which he was born on a farm
only few miles from the acres OF
factories and laboratories that con-
stitute the parent plant Of the Ford
Motor Co.
1t was TO this quiet spot In the
midst OF the roaring industrial scene
that the Ford family, keeping its
grief to itself. invited the public to
share In the respects to the auton,o-
bile nagIiate.
All Walks Pay Tribute.
They came today, the grjmy me-
chanic from the sutomotiye plant
the graying men and women who
followed Mr.. Ford's fabulous rise
from the ohscurity of life on farm
in Detroit's suburbs, and the titans
of industry who paid tribute to q
dangerous but respected foe.
First TO file past the lily-banked
CONN were three uniformed plant
protection men: there were other
old-tlrne Ford workers; adults anc
children: the line stretched out to
the gate leading into Greenfield
Village Recreation Center. The line
wound out for several hundred feet
before the gate was opend at am.
Company officials would not guess
at the size of the crowd at Green
field Village, but said it might run
into the hundreds OF thousands be-
fore The day was done.
Mrs. Ford Is Stole.
Mrs. Henry Ford, who with 3
member OF the household staff, was
alone with her famed husband when
death came at 11:A0 O'Clock Monday
night, was reported today to be
bearing her bereavement stoically.
She will be 80 years old on Fri
day, the day that will also mark
the seth anniversary of her mar
risee> to Ford.
At midnight tonight, the vast
Ford industrial empire will halt
sctivity and only the lamps of
wstchmen will light the plants
scross the Nation and across the |
world.
Ernest r. Beech. executive vice /
president of the Ford Motor Co.,
said production will not resume
until midnight tomorrow in respect
TO the tall, angular man who built |
a $4,000 firm into an $500, 900 900
industrial colossus
Tomorrow, the BODY Of Mr.. Ford |
will be borne to downtown Detroit
for funeral services at st. Paul's
Episcopal Cathedral on woodward
avenue.
Again the family has invited the
public to participate in Anal homage.
Burial Will Re Private.
After the services, however. the
body will be taken quietly and in
private to q tiny. iron fenced ceme-
tery on the farm where he was
born and where other generations
have been laid to rest. There the
family alone, including the widow
with whom he was to have cele-
brated his 59th wedding anniversary
FRIDAY. will mark his passing. |
Employees Of the funeral firm will
roll the casket to the grave on
mechanical devices, the family ex-
planning that to recruit pail bearers
would tax TOO many persons too far |
away. |
The little Addison Ford Cemetery,
where Henry Ford will be buried |
beside his mother and father, lies at
the busy intersection Of Joy and
roads. Its crllmbling white
headstones are busted by ashes from
the stacks of the huge River Rouge