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FLYING WITH WILEY POST 233
John Boles, film star and a close friend of the Rogers family, sang "Old Faithful," and Dr. J. Whitcomb Brougher, associate pastor of the Glendale Baptist Church read the funeral service.
Doctor Brougher quoted from an introduction written by Rogers for Trails Plowed Under, a book of reproductions of paintings of Charles M. Russell, the cowboy painter. Russell was dead when the book appeared in print. It was probably one of the finest things Rogers ever wrote.
"I guess you'll be able to set around now and chin with Mark Twain and James Whitcomb Riley and lots of them old joshers," he wrote. Then he went on wistfully to assume that heaven was a range with a good " chuck" wagon and plenty of food at nightfall. As though he were writing a letter directly to Russell he asked " Charley" to look around heaven and see if he could find Will's father and mother. He then concluded with "and if you see a little rascal running around, kiss him for me. Well, can't write you any more, Charley, dam paper's all wet. It must be raining in the bunk house." The "little rascal" was Will's boy, Fred, named after Fred Stone. He died in infancy.
Among those in the church were Stepin Fetchit, who played in pictures with Will, Eddie Cantor, the Stones, Clarke Gable, Spencer Tracy, Mary Pickford, Charlie Chaplin, Irvin Cobb, Walt Disney, and more than 100 others of Rogers' closest friends. Four Indians from Oklahoma came in a dilapidated car with cards inviting them to attend the private services in the church for their friend.