"Spread the word through the town: Mr. Michael P. Jones, owner of the Pauley Jones funeral home modest yet refined is looking for an artist among the nearly 8,000 residents of Denison, in western Iowa, to draw a chair and a Cuban flag on the urn he now carries, on which the following inscription will be engraved: Feglys Campos Arriba (10/21/888/15/25). Forever in our hearts."
"He grew up in a family dedicated to the funeral business and is an expert when it comes to processing costs for burials, cremations, and the scattering of ashes. His funeral home, which is over a hundred years old and hosts about three wakes a month, recently handled the funerals of Mrs. Deloris Adams, a social worker who died at 94, and Mrs. Lile Ann Petersen, a former elementary school teacher who drew her last breath at 92."
"But the latest deceased at the Pauley Jones Funeral Home is not named Conrad or Fahn, but rather Campos Arriba. He was not born in Crawford County but in the Cuban province of Guantanamo, and he was not an older white person but a 36-year-old Brown man who did not die of Parkinson's or old age, but was shot by the local police. The news has frightened the people of Denison, a town where nothing ever happens."
Mr. Michael Jones, owner of the Pauley Jones Funeral Home, seeks an artist in Denison to draw a chair and a Cuban flag on an urn inscribed Feglys Campos Arriba (10/21/888/15/25). He is tall and athletic in his fifties and wears a playful tie over a blue shirt. He grew up in a funeral family and handles burial, cremation, and ash-scattering costs. The funeral home is over a hundred years old and hosts about three wakes a month, recently handling two elderly local women. The latest deceased, Campos Arriba, was born in Guantanamo and was a 36-year-old Brown man shot by local police. The shooting has frightened Denison residents accustomed to a quiet Midwestern routine.
Read at english.elpais.com
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