Special to the New York Times. Washington, Oct. 23 - At the request of Miss Helen Keller and others, right of sepulture in Washington Cathedral has been granted for Mrs. Anne Sullivan Macy, lifelong companion of Miss Keller. The committal service will be held in the Chapel of St. Joseph of Arimathea at the Cathedral on Mount St. Albans Monday Nov. 2, at 3 P. M. Bishop James F. Freeman will officiate. Funeral services for Mrs. Macy, who died Oct. 20, were held yesterday in New York. Of the plan to honor her beloved teacher by placing the urn containing her ashes in the National Cathedral, Miss Keller, in a letter received here today, wrote: 'I feel that a nobler tribute could not be paid to her whose love and resourceful mind brought liberty into my dungeon of silence.
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Newspaper clipping from the New York Times on October 23, 1936. Headline: To Honor Mrs. Macy- Rights of Burial of Ashes in Washington Cathedral Granted.