We didn’t go to his funeral to pay our respects; we went for Maude Alexander. For a man with so much wealth and power, there were very few in attendance. His wife had died not long after Maude. His oldest son was killed in the last days of the Second World War. His youngest son, an ambassador to somewhere, didn’t attend. “He worked every day of his life,” the pastor said in his eulogy. “Never has there been a harder working man or a man more committed to his country.”
