(5/8/06) The following is from The Huntsville Times (Alabama)

ERSKINE FAMILY FULFILLS DYING WISH AND SOLVES MYSTERY

Patriarch's son's ashes interred at Maple Hill: 'Dad will be happy here'

Sunday, May 07, 2006
By PATRICIA C. McCARTER, Times Staff Writer, pmccarter@htimes.com

It was the smallest of ceremonies, with just the family Bible turned to Psalms 116 and the deceased's two children and their spouses crowded in the Erskine mausoleum.

Even though the ashes of Albert Russel "Randy" Erskine III's and Susan Erskine Whitmore's father have been in a brass urn for 15 years, the sadness of his death overwhelmed them all over again.

"It's like another funeral, but this is what Dad wanted, so we're glad to finally be doing it," said Susan, looking around at the serene setting of the mausoleum in Maple Hill Cemetery. (Story continues)

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