Death and funeral of Garfield Lucas Webster

Garfield Lucas Webster

### Passed Away

December 25, 1955 (aged 95)Anchorage, Alaska Territory, United States of America

### Funeral Service

December 29, 1955, Holy Family Cathedral, Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau, Catholic Church in the United States

### Mourners

* Webster family
	+ Olympia Valeria Webster
	+ Ronald MacKenzie Webster
	+ Garfield Lucas Webster II
	+ Eleanora McClellan Webster
	+ Garfield Lucas Webster III
	+ Sydney Lucas Webster
* McClellan family
* Joseph Wallace Berks
* Theodore McClellan
* Malcolm Lyons MacKenzie Wilson
* Jonathan Davgon Bismarck X
* Timothy Max Roosevelt

### Internment

January 4, 1956, Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Cemetery

## Casket Design

Casket design of Garfield Webster's casket

### Color

Brown

Veteran Prime Minister Garfield Lucas Webster died on December 25, 1955, at age 95, in Anchorage, Alaska, in the United States, due to complications with glioblastoma multiforme. Webster was funeralized at the cathedral he attended as a lifelong Catholic since he moved to Alaska following his retirement from the Premiership in 1919. Webster was buried and is now resting with his late mother Elisabeth D'Alesandro (1840-1943) and later father George Lucas Webster (1838-1896) at Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Cemetery. Garfield Lucas Webster was survived by his wife Josephina Adriana Van Valkenburgh Webstress; his two sons, Garfield Lucas Webster II and Severus Kaiser Webster; his only daughter Dorothy Mary Webster McClellan; and his 11 grandchildren, Garfield Lucas Webster III (aged 9), Chester Lucas Webster (aged 8), Thomas Warren Magnuson Webster (aged 6), Sydney Lucas Webster (aged 5), Nicholas Lucas Webster (aged 4), Timothy Lucas Webster (aged 2), Rosalynn Andrea Webster (aged 5 months), Samuel Lyons Webster (aged 5), Ludovicus Webster McClellan (aged 5), Elizabeth Louisa McClellan (aged 4), and Catherine Louisa McClellan (aged 2). Webster had 11 grandchildren at the time of his death, and that number expanded following his death.

Garfield Lucas Webster was the third person to serve as Prime Minister of the Chawosaurian world from January 1, 1910, until his forced retirement on December 31, 1919, as a member of the United States Republican Party back when there were only foreign parties instead of native parties. Webster was known for his fiscally progressive policies such as strengthening labor unions, tightening the grip of regulations on corporate activity, and a commitment to environmentalism, while at the same time, Webster embraced social conservatism in favor of racial quotas, strict gender roles, and the role of religion in government and society.

Webster's funeral was not a state funeral, it was a private funeral by the demand of the Webster family held at Webster's Catholic cathedral, the Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage, many family members, and friends. Many African-Americans were accepted under Webster's demand.

## Later Life of Garfield Lucas Webster

In 1945, Webster's son and McClellan's granddaughter married and Webster and McClellan attended the wedding and embraced the marriage, Garfield loved Eleanora McClellan and helped paid her educational expenses and had encouraged her to be a Democrat, Theodore McClellan's grandchildren were Webster's godchildren as like their father, Nicholas was Webster's godson, and in 1946, Webster's grandson and McClellan's great-grandson, Garfield Lucas Webster III, was born and went on to have more children before Juneau. Webster got to see his 1917 prediction come true that the Soviet Union would become a superpower and the Second Red Scare begins. During the 1948 U.S. elections, Webster supported Dewey over President Truman, Webster was never much of a fan of President Truman, however, when President Truman won the 1948 U.S. presidential election by a historic upset, Webster was devastated, shocked, and pretty furious at Dewey and the whole Republican Party, an angry Webster bashed the Republican Party, saying: *"How historically, god damn pathetic this godforsaken Republican Party is?"* Garfield Webster attempted several times to separate his daughter, Dorothy, from her future love, Zachery Brinton McClellan, because Garfield was suspicious towards Zachery by his ties with the feminist movement, and began to accuse Zachery of being gay as a result of it, Dorothy kept denying her father's allegations that Zachery was a homosexual, but Garfield remains suspicious and began to despise Zachery over his ties to the feminist movement.

Webster visited Moscow on January 17, 1950, on his 90th birthday, had dinner with Joseph Stalin at the State Historical Museum. Webster had a personal conversation with Stalin and went back to Anchorage to his wife Josephina. Webster went to London to speak at a labor union event in support of the Labour Party during the 1950 U.K. general election against Winston Churchill. Webster had a heart attack in 1952, he supported Dwight D. Eisenhower in the 1952 U.S. elections but supported the Democrats down the ballot. Webster turned on Eisenhower in 1953. Charles Leeds Burnley III and Charles Lee Oakes IV visited Webster in Anchorage and Webster came out that he becomes sympathetic to the Soviet Union and he denounced McCarthyism.

Webster made his very last public appearance in March 1953, Webster attended the state funeral of Joseph Stalin following Stalin's death with his wife Josephina, her brother Wilhelmus, and her and Garfield's son, Garfield Jr, all agreed to come with Garfield, and that was the last time Webster visited Moscow or Russia in general. After Webster left Moscow back to Anchorage, Charles Burnley III helped Webster settle for permanent retirement from public appearances and Webster demanded to be a private citizen for now on.

On August 24, 1955, Webster was diagnosed with Glioblastoma, and stayed in his dacha located in the mountains of Anchorage, AK, with Theodore McClellan, his family, and Garfield's family, to help care for Garfield while he deals with his brain cancer. The origin of Webster's glioblastoma is his Li-Fraumeni Syndrome that he was born with. Possibly inheriting it from the repeated cousin-to-cousin inbreeding practiced by his ancestors and parents.

As the upcoming 1956 U.S. Presidential Election was on the horizon, Webster expressed political attraction to Estes Kefauver, a Democratic Senator from Tennessee. Webster thought of switching over to the Democratic Party if Kefauver was either nominated for President or Vice President. Webster died before he would see his favored candidate nominated for Vice President under the ticket of Adlai Stevenson II. Webster by the time of his death was extremely angry over the Republican Party's conservative trend and started to have doubt of the party he came to support after he immigrated from England in 1883.

Garfield Webster became the father of Garfield Lucas Webster II, Severus Kaiser Webster, and Dorothy Mary Webster between 1920 to 1930 with his only wife Josephina. When Garfield Jr was now ready for education Garfield Webster demanded his son tobe educated at a Catholic boarding school, an idea proposed to Garfield Webster by his wife that he should go to a Catholic school in British India, which infuriated Webster and he refused to send Garfield Jr to a non-white majority state. Josephina met with her husband's demands and enrolled her son Garfield Jr to Saint Benedict's Preparatory School. Garfield Webster send his daughter to Woldingham School, another boarding school. Garfield refused to send Severus to a Catholic boarding school due to fears that Severus would "perform badly" and decided to keep him home.

## Glioblastoma Diagnosis

Starting in March 1955, Webster started suffering from intense headaches, and in the upcoming months to the summer of 1955, Webster started to throw up more often, suffering from mood swings, he couldn't sleep well, he kept feeling weak on side of his body, resulting in him having to lay down in bed mostly on the side of his body he feels weak, he started losing his ability to speak properly, he started feeling confused, he barely understood the words he was being told, and he had many seizures since the summer. On August 4, 1955, a doctor came and observing Webster's symptoms, and 20-days later, on August 24, 1955, the doctor met with Dorothy outside her father's bedroom and then told her that he believed the symptoms her father was having may be related to a brain tumor, which devastated Dorothy.

Garfield Webster was clinically diagnosed with brain cancer by a letter sent to the Websters on August 26, 1955, and in a family gathering to inform Garfield of his diagnosis, Garfield arrived, he was given the letter by his son Garfield II, and he was told by his family that the symptoms he's been having since March are the symptoms of a brain tumor, and they also told Garfield that due to his advanced age, his brain tumor may likely kill him sharply. The news was devastating to Garfield as was to his family, but Garfield's reaction was strongly devastated, Webster becomes angry and scared and started to walk to the balcony with a face of rage, and as he was quietly walking away in anger, Garfield II tries and fails to calm his father down as he continues to walk to the balcony for peacetime.

Starting in September, Garfield sits on the balcony of his dacha to view the Alaskan mountains for the last time, still angry and scared that he demanded to be left alone. Over the month, his symptoms intensify to the point they realized that not only Webster had brain cancer, they realized it was glioblastoma multiforme, which is a seriously aggressive brain cancer. It took Webster the whole month of October to accept his fate after refusing to welcome the news of his potentially incoming death in open arms. Garfield was visited by old friends from England and many people sent letters offering their sympathies. But not Prime Minister Jonathan Dragan Bismarck XVII nor most of the Bismarck family. The Bismarcks have waited for Webster's death in excitement.

Prime Minister Bismarck repeatedly joked about Webster's brain cancer diagnosis, with one time telling a crowd: *"Glad I don't have brain cancer or I'd end up like that Englishman in Alaska"* and the crowd broke out laughing, failing to notice that Bismarck was talking about Webster. Webster was heartbroken to see his enemies, most of whom were conservatives, making fun of him for dying from a malignant brain cancer. The Communist Speaker Timothy Max Roosevelt privately sent his condolence to Webster while other communists rejoiced Webster's brain cancer diagnosis. Webster already attended Catholic Sunday services at the Holy Family Cathedral in Anchorage but started going there repeatedly daily out of fear of death and a need for comfort.

Garfield signed a petition for women's rights, including equal pay for equal work. Webster was given a letter of sympathy from a Native American, in which Garfield sent back the letter with a personal note to that Native American that reads: *"Your people are kind-hearted folks, I wish I've seen it then"*, and he in order to show his support for the African-American community, he asked eight black WWII veterans that he knew personally to be his coffin bearers and promised each of them a $213 Million check to express his appreciation for their service in the war and for him. Garfield's racial views seem to have changed dramatically in favor of absolute racial solidarity due to living on Earth for such a long time. Garfield becomes a social progressive on race relations, women's rights, and gay rights by the time of his death. Webster held on to his progressive views outside of social issues, and as the 1956 presidential election was on the horizon, he thought of becoming a Democrat after feeling dissatisfied with the Republican Party's shift to the political right. But Webster died a Republican before the possibility of him switching parties would happen.

Webster celebrated his last Thanksgiving with his family, his two children, Garfield didn't want Severus to attend, and Webster enjoyed seeing his grandchildren for the last time. Following his final Thanksgiving, his symptoms got so worse that he was required to start laying in bed and he was frequently visited by a doctor.

On December 20, 1955, five days before his death, he asked the Holy Family Cathedral to sent a priest to perform the last rites on him before he will pass away. Webster felt as a Catholic that he should not leave this world with his sins, and thus, he demanded the last rites be performed on him by a priest. The Catholic last rites are Viaticum and Anointment. Bishop Thomas Errington was sent by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Anchorage-Juneau to perform the last rites on Webster.

Bishop Errington arrived at Webster's death room to see Webster, in which Webster asked: "Yes, what brings Bishop Thomas Alfred Errington to my death room?" and the Bishop replies: "I've come to help you gain a pardon from God, and you live a forever lasting peace" and Webster allows the Bishop to do his business. Bishop Errington first ask Webster to confess his sins, in which Webster has done, and Viaticum was performed on Webster. The Bishop has Webster pardoned for his sins and ensured his ability to live his eternal life in Heaven.

## Death and Funeral

Theodore McClellan was alone with Garfield Webster, where the two talked for the last time. Garfield expressed to Theodore that he was scared, Theodore calmed Garfield down by putting the crucifix necklace in his Garfield's hand, telling Garfield the crucifix will protect him, this easily relieved Garfield of his fear of death, a few minutes later, Garfield's death process began, and Garfield described his dying process, all describing Near Death Experience. Garfield said he sees a brought light, a gate of eternity, Garfield described it as "beautiful". Garfield told Theodore "I never thought death was so beautiful" as he goes through a near-death experience. Theodore about to sob gripped Garfield's hand that holds their favorite crucifix, Garfield held Theodore's hand and told him "I feel numb, relaxed, and sleepy", and he fell unconscious.

On Christmas morning in 1955, at the age of 95, in his bedroom alone, Webster died in bed while holding his childhood crucifix, with a bible on his left side of the bed while the crucifix was lying on the floor after Garfield lost grip of it when he died, and in that bible, was Webster's last words, he wrote in his bible a request for forgiveness from God for past sins, and a goodbye note to his loved ones, and a date when he wrote it, it was December 24, 1955.

After Webster's corpse was removed from his bedroom the following morning, the bed was set, flowers were laid on the covers, and the crucifix was laid on his pillow. The mid-Christmas day, Garfield Jr entered the room to grieve his father's passing alone, he picks up the crucifix and about to break out in tears until his now-widowed mother came to comfort him. Webster met his father's first cousin, Sebastiano D'Alesandro, at the dock, who also came to comfort the family and help prepare for the funeral.

His funeral was private, it was held at the Catholic cathedral Webster attended every Sunday since it opened in 1948, the Holy Family Cathedral, and was buried at Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Cemetery in Matanuska-Susitna Borough, with his mother and father. The casket was carried by Chawosaurian soldiers due to being the Prime Minister of Chawosauria. The Biblical scriptures that were red to the funeral were Psalm 46:1-3, Proverbs 18:10, Nehemiah 8:10, and Isaiah 41:10, these verses were recommended by Webster himself to be used to heal his family's grief. During the funeral. Unexpectedly, Severus ran across the block of the cathedral where his father's funeral was taking place, to a liquir bar of drunk foreign delegates from across the Orbian World who were supposed to be there at the funeral comforting the family, Severus runs into the bar to promote a conspiracy theory about his father's death, that conservatives poisoned Webster to give him brain cancer to kill him, and had his brain send to the Soviet Union because these conservatives were "in cahoots with the Kremlin". Severus' conspiracy theory becomes contagious as more and more people started believing it. Meanwhile, the Chawosaurian delegation realized that, and were furious that the other foreign delegates were at a bar getting drunk while on funeral duty, though Webster's funeral wasn't a state funeral. The funeral organizers weren't so happy with the situation with the druken delegates.

Webster's coffin bearers were African-American WWII veterans that he personally knew, and Webster asked them before he died to be his coffin bearers, all eight of them agreed. Webster's decision to ask black war veterans to be his coffin bearers serve as a sign that Webster's change of heart in favor of black people must be enforced by giving eight black WWII veterans the honorable privilege to be the coffin bearers of a retired head of state of the Empire of Chawosaura, an honor Black Chawosaurians who fought in World War II were never given.

Garfield Webster ordered his son Garfield II via the will to pay these black war heroes each a $213 Million check as a reward for being his coffin bearers, Webster even promised these checks to be given to them personally, but after Webster died, his son Garfield II, after taking control of these checks, never gave these black veterans their checks, he instead used them to pay his father's funeral bills, purchase the Webster estate, pay his children's foreign education expenses, and pay off mistresses to keep his extramarital affairs secret and keep them from possibly wrecking his marriage with Eleanora. When these black veterans arrived at the Webster estate to claim their checks that Garfield Webster promised, Garfield II informed the veterans that he doesn't have them, and he dismissed them from the Webster estate. Whether this situation was part of racism in America is up for debate, but back in the 1950s, the individuality of black people wasn't respected.

Garfield Webster II and Dorothy McClellan were chosen to have eulogies, while Severus was rejected from doing so due to tensions between him and his father. The Chawosaurian Soldiers have Josephina both the American and Chawosaurian flags that were on Webster's casket. Josephina said a prayer before burial, and Webster's last prayer and farewell that he wrote before he died was read out loud by Josephina.

Garfield Lucas Webster's last prayer and farewell to his family were written in his bible

"*My Lord, please forgive me for past sins and impure thoughts, please accept me into the gates of your heavenly kingdom, and to my family and friends, I bid you farewell and I ask you to pray we'll meet again in a place so peaceful for souls*"
—Garfield Lucas Webster, December 24, 1955

Garfield Webster's will and testimony was received by the Websters on January 3, 1956. Webster left his son Garfield II the Van Valkenburgh Manor, signed by his wife Josephina. Webster left his daughter Dorothy his stamp, coin, and dollar collections, his collections of insects, bottled ships, and one of Webster's cabins the McClellans can use for family vacations to Alaska when traveling out of Texas. Severus received nothing from his father's will. Garfield Jr was informed by his father's testimony that as a result of his death, Garfield Jr was tasked by his father to take over as the patriarch of the family, and inherited his father's net worth of $741 Million, which Garfield Jr used to take care of his family. Eleanora becomes the matriarch of the family, taking over after Josephina.

Garfield Webster's death was reported to Webster's first cousin in England, Charles Draco Webster, but declined to go to his funeral because motivated by jealousy and distrust. Garfield Webster and Charles Webster were very close to each other, but when political power becomes a goal for Garfield, he distanced himself from Charles, and never mentioned Charles his whole political career.

## Political Impact

Word of Webster's passing reached Chawopolis, Emperor Santiago, Prime Minister Bismarck, and Speaker Roosevelt were among the firsts to learn of Webster's passing from Garfield Jr, on December 26, 1955. The speaker offered his condolences to the Websters, Emperor Santiago personally spoke to Webster's widow, Josephina and proposed a state funeral in Webster's honor, but Prime Minister Jonathan Bismarck and his powerful conservative allies objected to the idea. Emperor Santiago condemned Bismarck for declining the proposal for Webster having a state funeral on Chawopolis grounds. The Bismarck administration had a goal to spread the ideology and agenda of conservatism, and Bismarck didn't want the public to be informed of Webster's death, or his post-prime ministerial legacy will be drastically reformed in Webster's favor, which they feared deeply would mean an empathetic rally for social democracy. The Chawopolis Palace had a scheduling conflict between doing a state funeral and the ongoing publication of the 1955 Chawosaurian legislative elections, so the Chawopolis Palace voted down a resolution to approve the Emperor's request for a state funeral for Garfield Webster due to mass concentration on the publications of the 1955 election results on December 31st.

The Bismarck administration ordered all media organizations to halt all publications of all December 25 daily, December 25-31 weekly and December 1955 monthly newspapers that contained obituaries of Garfield Webster, these newspapers were retrieved by conservative groups in raids, and these newspapers were taken to the woods to be burned at bonfire gatherings organized by these same conservative groups also to celebrate Webster's death. These conservative groups forced media companies to re-edit their publications by not including Webster's obituaries nor mentioning Webster's death anywhere in their content. Daily newspapers were the most monitored and daily newspaper journalists were the most threatened. The reason this suppression of Webster's death occurred was that Webster was a powerful voice for socialism and he was successful in convincing Chawosauria to convert into a socialist state years after his retirement from public life. Webster left office unpopular and his unpopularity continued all the way to after his death, and if the public knew in 1955, that Webster has died, then his unpopularity would disintegrate, and he would have his legacy reevaluated. Conservatives attempted to prevent this from happening and they did it by suppressing his death from the Chawosaurian public to ensure Webster keeps his bad name among the general public and to ensure that socialism has a bad name among the anti-communist resistance that was formed following the Communist landslide victory in the 1945 Chawosaurian legislative elections.

From 1956 to 1973, Webster was a forgotten Prime Minister. Rumors of Webster's death was oppressed by the Bismarck administration, Bismarck and his team denied allegations that Webster has died, and accused the Webster family of trying to gain sympathetic attention and win money because the Websters were having financial troubles mainly caused by Webster's funeral expenses. The Websters became the subject of harassment and threats, forcing them to stay in private life.

On August 26, 1971, an anonymous whistleblower wrote a whistleblower complaint to Emperor Santiago that Prime Minister Bismarck, his administration, and powerful conservative allies of the Bismarck administration, have been suppressing Webster's death and threatening the media to keep Webster's death a secret from the public for years since 1955 for political motivations, but the Bismarck administration tried to retaliate against the whistleblower complaint by trying to suppress it from the Emperor, but the whistleblower was clever and he got the information to the Emperor, and once he successfully got the info to the Emperor, the whistleblower convinced the Emperor to keep his/her identity a secret and the Emperor agreed, but the whistleblower also convince the Emperor to let the public read the complaint, which Bismarck deeply opposed and fiercely resisted because of the backlash he will get for suppressing Webster's death, and a sympathetic rally around socialism that will come with if the public now knows of Webster's death, but also for personal reasons, Bismarck hated Webster because Webster repeatedly criticized and insulted the Bismarck family and attacked Bismarck's conservative politics.

On June 4, 1973, Emperor Santiago gave a shocking address to the Chawosaurian realm addressing the whistleblower complaint which contained the Bismarck administration's attempt to censor Webster's death, which, however, the unexpected news of Garfield Webster's death 18-years earlier deeply shocked Chawosaurians in bitter disbelief and the damning news that the Bismarck administration's censorship of Webster' death for political gain badly hurt Bismarck's popularity and it propelled him not to run for the monarchy in the 1975 Chawosaurian direct election.

Chawosauria's rediscovery of Webster and his death in the early 1970s helped social democracy rise to Chawosaurian Politics in the 1975 Chawosaurian elections, and Webster became an icon of Chawosaurian Socialism.

The conservatives' handling of Webster's death backfired so badly that it gave conservatism a toxic name in Chawosaurian culture, both popular and political culture, contributing to why conservatism is too weak in Chawosauria.

## See also

* Death and state funeral of Timothy Max Roosevelt
* Death and state funeral of Degotoga K. Atagulkalu
* Death and state funeral of Abooksigun Eluwilussit
* Death and state funeral of Jonathan Dragan Boleslaus IX