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Almost 100 years later, a funeral is held for mental health hospital fire victims in Norman, Oklahoma.

By Jaclyn Cosgrove, Staff WriterNORMAN — It was the funeral that William Altgeld, Chester Austin, Henry Breedlove and John Creston never got. A remembrance that Walter Eckles, Robert Fanning and Pete Gvasdanogitch never received. These men were among the 40 patients of a state psychiatric hospital who were victims of one of the deadliest fires in Oklahoma history. Ninety-seven years ago, the men — Claud Greenwalt, Ira Herring and William Johnson — were placed in pine boxes and buried in a mass grave, without ceremony or marker, a reflection of society’s view of mental illness at the time. “All people’s lives have value and meaning,” said Carrie Slatton-Hodges, deputy commissioner of recovery and treatment at the state’s mental health agency.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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