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Up at the airport, under what's slated to be a private racetrack, no one's resting in peace.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published on November 15, 2007
It has been light for only an hour, but the Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel is open for business. In the back of the Cleaver II Boulevard complex, two new coffins, still shrink-wrapped in plastic, stand on rolling platforms in a concrete hallway. Later today, they will contain two of the community's recently deceased. For 98 years — four generations — this family-owned funeral home has buried the city's African-American dead. This morning, though, Warren Watkins Jr., vice president, embalmer and funeral director, has business concerning people who have been dead much longer.
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Michael Forester
Olin Miller and Shirley Kimsey hold Kimsey’s cemetery map.
Olin Miller and Shirley Kimsey hold Kimsey’s cemetery map.
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Michael Forester
Descendents of Platte County pioneers gather in the lobby of the Watkins Brothers funeral home.
Descendents of Platte County pioneers gather in the lobby of the Watkins Brothers funeral home.
Subject(s):
Platte County, KCI, KCI Motorsports Park, Civil War, slavery
Watkins walks out the garage doors and unlo"
Up at the airport, under what's slated to be a private racetrack, no one's resting in peace.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published on November 15, 2007
It has been light for only an hour, but the Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel is open for business. In the back of the Cleaver II Boulevard complex, two new coffins, still shrink-wrapped in plastic, stand on rolling platforms in a concrete hallway. Later today, they will contain two of the community's recently deceased. For 98 years — four generations — this family-owned funeral home has buried the city's African-American dead. This morning, though, Warren Watkins Jr., vice president, embalmer and funeral director, has business concerning people who have been dead much longer.
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Michael Forester
Olin Miller and Shirley Kimsey hold Kimsey’s cemetery map.
Olin Miller and Shirley Kimsey hold Kimsey’s cemetery map.
*
Michael Forester
Descendents of Platte County pioneers gather in the lobby of the Watkins Brothers funeral home.
Descendents of Platte County pioneers gather in the lobby of the Watkins Brothers funeral home.
Subject(s):
Platte County, KCI, KCI Motorsports Park, Civil War, slavery
Watkins walks out the garage doors and unlo"
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