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Martha Mitchell Buried Hometown Funeral Martha Mitchell Buried By Myra MacPherson daughter, Marty. the South I feel I understood her." Washington Post During the memorial ceremo- Martha Mitchell was, as one Pine Bluff, Ark. ny, facing the closed steel casket friend said, "A mass of contradic- Among the floral wreaths'sur- topped with pink flowers, Mitchell tions." displayed the same poker face that rounding Martha Mitchell's grave Terrified of the limelight, she on the sloping crest of Bellwood millions saw during the televised Watergate hearings. would often weep before one of her Cemetery was a display of white "public performances" — her ap- mums, spelling out in 'block letters Later, Mitchell sat in the living pearances were always perform- six inches high a slogan that needed room of the Wests' estate and sent ances — but once out there the no interpretation: "Martha Was word through a friend that "it was blonde woman who tripped around Right." a very fine service with all the on stiletto high-heeled sling-back The flowers, sent by a Califor- dignity and grace that Martha shoes adorned with organdy and nia admiral (the family would not deserved." bows gloried in it all. To some of Martha Mitchell's say who) spelled the epitaph for Before Watergate Martha Martha Beall Mitchell — once closest friends, Mitchell was gra- cious and concerned throughout Mitchell was the lightning rod .f or America's most outspoken woman the polarization in this country. who warned of the sins of Water- yesterday's services. gate before many were ready to But others among the 400 who To many she was a brazen and listen. sat through the Episcopal service, bombastic woman, to others she was a heroine who attacked a The estranged wife of former many of them elderly women wear- ing gloves and summer dresses, liberal permissiveness they felt had Attorney General John N. Mitchell brought chaos to the land. died at the age of 57 of a painful were less kind to Mitchell. and rare bone cancer on Memorial Over and over, one heard Not only should Senator J. Day and was buried yesterday in a criticism of Mitchell because of William Fulbright be "crucified" quiet and dignified — and some remembered stories about his cut- for voting against the Supreme viewers said impersonal — service ting comments about his estranged Court nomination of G. Harrold that gave no hint of her life of wife, about the $36,000 in alimony Carswell, she asserted, the Cambo- flamboyance and fame, loneliness. owed by Mitchell or about her dian war was "100 per cent wonder- ful." With a southern passion for lonely death after a coma. discretion, Mrs. Mitchell's closest But she was often forgiven Pine Bluff friends, the S. Ray "I'm surprised he showed his because her almost childlike naive- Wests, among the wealthiest people face," said one woman. te. in this town, assiduously obeyed the Although flowers came from orders of John Mitchell — whose President and Mrs. Ford, no Wash- No matter the agony she suf- fered, Mrs. Mitchell insisted until career and marriage were de- ington dignitaries were present. the end to tie a ribbon in her hair,to stroyed by the Watergate scandal Cornelia Wallace, the wife of the — that the press and people of Pine Alabama governor, who met Mrs. wear lipstick and to have her Bluff be kept at a distance from Mitchell a few years ago, came fingernails polished daily. Yester- day she was buried in a pale pink him and the Mitchells' 15-year-old because, "I liked her. Being from organdy dress, her blonde hair pulled back in a pompadour, her nails the bright red she always wore. "When I was growing up," she In yesterday's service John said a few years ago, "come Sunday Mitchell stared straight ahead and I couldn't wait to wear my go-to- her daughter, Marty, sat with Church clothes. Today, when I wear downcast eyes as the minister something fancy and pretty it still said people would not forget Mrs. gives me a lift." Mitchell's "zest for life, the breadth of her sympathy and the C. H. Kunz, a Manhattan busi- strength of her conviction." nessman who knew her more than 30 years ago at the University of Jay Jennings, 28, her son by a Arkansas, was the last to see her, on previous marriage, fought back Saturday. In a telephone interview tears and swallowed hard. He is a he said, "she- was like a little researcher for the Senate Subcom- Southern belle and it was hard for mittee on internal security. people to accept the fact that she could be serious and totally analyti- When the Mitchell family and cal." the people of Pine Bluff and the pack of cameramen and reporters But her intuitive fears about moved on, out of Bellwood Ceme- Richard Nixon's "dirty tricks" and tery, with its ancient graves, some her call for him to resign are the dating to pre-Civil War days, four things people remember now, al- workmen lowered the casket into; though time has dimmed the me- the ground. mories of the days when members Martha Mitchell lies at the foot of the Nixon administration' im- of her mother's grave and next to plied that she was crazy. her grandparents. 3Fatronicie 28 an zranrisco etironicle * Fri., June 4, 1976JUN 976 UPI Telepho JAY JENNINGS, JOHN MITCHELL AND MARTY MITCHELL Some weue surpried that John Mitchell came to the funeral .
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