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Glenda Campbell
Hatteberg's People
Reporter: Larry Hatteberg
September 23, 2004--They are usually the cars we ride in once, but for Glenda Campbell of Wichita, she finds satisfaction in riding in the cars most of us consider a one-way trip.
“A hearse is definitely the vehicle for me.” |
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When Glenda Campbell takes a nap --- it’s in a hearse. Her hearse. “And there is lots of room.”
She works at WSU at the National Institute for Aviation Research. Her office is almost overcome by her memorabilia. But some of what she loves to collect is to large to put on a shelf. |
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“To me they are like a big station wagon. As a matter of fact, that’s what I call this….the wagon.”
Glenda and her husband Steve own four hearses. |
| “My husband and I have always liked the macabre, always. I’ve always like the creepy shows and the morbidity and I’ve always liked the hearse.”
Her husband drives as his work car a 1983 Mercury Thacker….known in the funeral industry as a ‘first-call’ car.
“And my husband puts his tools in it and it holds a lot of tools.”
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With four hearses in all, their fleet sometimes causes a lot of attention.
“People stop and want to know what’s going on. And they say are those all your hearses, do you drive all those and do those all belong to you…and I say….yeah, yeah, and yeah.” |
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The other fact that makes this family unique is that they live in an old Wichita Fire Station. |
“Fire station # 6 built in 1953. Live is too short to live in a boring house and drive a boring car.”
“If you are our age and there is something you want to do and have never done, you better get to doing it, because you may not be here tomorrow to do it.” |
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