COLORADO: Going Out in Style

Ever since his sister died four years ago, James Nelson Gernhart had talked of nothing but death and funerals. "Old Jim" had blown a fuse at the way his relatives tried to bury his sister: "They wanted to give her a stinking little three hundred-dollar funeral, bury her like a dog, but I stepped in and stopped that." Now, at 75, old Jim was alone and he wanted everybody in tiny (pop. 2,200) Burlington, Colo, to know that he, at least, was going out in style.

He went over to Kanorado and hired himself...

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