For information" Ref page 5ll-512 The Analytical American History of
the Life and Times of Howard Robard Hughes (Memorial Publication)

(Excerpt): "...in yonder grave repose the mortal remains (if reports
be true...) of a man who, from his early youth, took of the talents
that (God) gave unto him. He was faithful to his charge. He
multiplied those talents many fold. In a time of great poverty and
suffering in the land he, like Thy servant Joseph of old, by Thy
Grace, brought forth abundance of material to succor his people and
his nation in a time of great hardship and peril during the Great
Depression. Surely no man did more than he to prepare his people for
the baptism of fire that came upon the whole world during those
terrible and calamitous times of the Second World War. With his hands
and his heart and with the brilliant intellectual abilities with
which thou didst endow him, he worked great works for the freedom of
mankind from powerful forces of terrorist domination. On
land...under the surface of the earth ... on the seas and in the
ocean depths ... in the air unto the far reaches of outer space ...
in all of these places he led his people to positions of preeminence
and by Thy Grace enabled them to triumph and to gain the victory over
their many and powerful enemies.

Yet - for all of this, being himself possessed of great wealth and
power, he was an humble man among his fellows. He oftentimes
anonymously shared in the toil of ordinary laborers in shops and
factories. His attire was modest and utilitarian. He sought no
fanfare or selfish publicity. During the last decade of his life
he was cruelly isolated, in the manner of a prisoner in solitary
confinement, tortured physically and psychologically, and horribly
abused.

Yet - it has been written without sympathy or human care in the books
and journals of the land that this - Thy Child - created in Thine Own
Image - Blessed by Thee with good health and Good Fortune, a Happy
Home, Born to the joy of his Father and his Mother and to the
positive interests of his fellows far and wide ----

A Wasted figure of the man that he became and that he was well-known
to be - was here interred in garments purchased by his distant kin -
for he did not even own any clothing of his own other than a rumpled
bathrobe, an old hat, pajamas, and undershorts held up by
drawstrings - for he had been deprived of buttons, staus. or any
object of metal content. His hair was long and unkempt; the nails of
his hands and feet were overgrown, untrimmed perhaps for years;
wounds of his body were such as to undoubtedly have caused him great
agony over a long period of time had been untended, neglected, and
untreated. His appearance was like unto that of thy children in the
nazi concentration-death camps of World War II - those whom his works
to preserve freedom did much to succor.

Yet - it has been written that only about 30 people (or less!), and
they not of his closest acquaintences, attended his funeral, and that
none wept. That the pastor present held a simple service, basing his
sermon on the scripture reading from the Book of Job that .... one
comes into the world with nothing, and that one must leave this world
with nothing...........

But it is not meet, not fitting that this man should depart from us,
to whom he gave so much!.. being himself bereft of all things, and
especially of that respect and honor and tender affection that is his
due. WE, therefore, extend to him our love and our grateful
appreciation, and our deepest respect. We commend his spsirit unto
Thy keeping with these words from Holy Writ: "Now Howard, The Lord
Bless Thee and Keep Thee; The Lord make his face to Shine Upon Thee
and Be Gracious Unto Thee; The Lord lift up His Countenance Upon
Thee, and Give Thee Peace. Amen.


(From graveside memorial service delivered by vjs at the Glenwood
Cemetary, Houston Texas on August 22, l995).
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Friends - this Man was the epitome-figure of the Private Enterprise
System that made America the hope and dream of a world of people
in times past. His murder was the crime of all time, against people
everywhere ... for whom he set the example of the value of each and
every single human life on earth.