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My great-grandfather was an auto-mechanic in Sikes, Louisiana (in Winn Parish). They held him at gun point while he repaired ones of their cars (or a stolen car).

First hand account of an unnamed mortician at the McKamey-Campbell Funeral Home in S. Dallas, TX details the incredible amount of work required to prepare the bullet-ridden body of Bonnie Parker.   Top left corner of document reads:   Tear this up please? Tear this up please!
She was about the size of Rose Grace, weighing a 100 pounds; (a thousand pounds of dynamite though).  She was very pretty of course her skin was somewhat tan. Her nails were beautiful. Likewise her toe nails. Her toes looked like fingers. The cuticles pushed back, the nails filed to a point, and a deep coral shade polish on them, the most beautiful toes I ever saw, just perfect. Her permanent just a month old we had it waved. Her face, right side was blown off. We fixed this and you could hardly tell it. Just one bullet went through her brain, however and number grazed her head as there were 3 big holes in her scalp, but not through skull. Her left eye terribly black, however I used eye shadow on other eye to match, so that was covered up. Now, her body was just mutilated and torn to pieces from shots. Her right hand nearly blown off (known as her trigger hand) her body besides being full of bullet holes was full of buckshot, pellets all over her body.  {Page 2}  We received body ten minutes of nine. Joe and I sewed on her until three that afternoon. At that time they say 25,000 people were lined up outside. It took 2 hours picking dirt, rocks etc. from her hair then to wash it and have waved. A tattoo on right leg two hearts one read Roy, the other Bonnie. Roy you know was her Husband (Roy Thornton now in Pen) All fluid the undertaker in Arcadia La. used leaked out she was torn up so she was a mass of blood, caked & dried. Several hours in bathing her. Had to scrape some of it off, and used gold dust to remove most of it. Had skin slip that night account Fluid leaking from it, began to smell the next morning, turning dark, smelling worse. The last day was rotten so to speak The odor was awful. Her Mother sat in the preparation room located at the back of the funeral home alone with her head over casket. How she stood it Lord knows. The other children couldn’t. Mother fainted 2:30 that night I asked if she wouldn’t like to go home, she went. By then the entire house smelt. We had to keep her so Sister Billy that was in jail in Ft Worth could get out & come to Funeral. She was buried in an all steel metal casket. Paper said $1000.00 wrong about $600 maybe less. Paper said $1000.00 vault.  Wrong there was no vault.    [Page 3]  Buried in an ice Blue Neglegee.  She was dressed in expensive clothes when killed. About 40,000 people came to view her. Paper said $1,500.00 damages done to Funeral Home. Wrong about the extent of $2.50. They did not tear windows etc as stated. The woman next door though turned Hose on the crowd to keep her flowers from being walked on. We had 38 officers stationed (3 shifts) all over house and front & back yard keeping crowd in order and all of us as well. 4 operators on the 4 phones. They rang every minute for two days & nights. More people came to see Bonnie than Clyde.  [Page 4] Officers were stationed to keep people on it so as not to wear rug out.  (Big movie Star) my picture was shown in Movies. The paper stretched their stories. She was not to become a Mother as stated. She was diseased slightly though as stated. Now you have it first hand as I worked on her. Joes [sic] & My work was praised very highly in every other line in papers. And if I do say it, It was good. And she looked swell no trace of disfigures showing. The crowd did not steal anything to take home. All paper talk. Example crowd lined up as Far as Fair Park, now judge how it looked. They brought their Lunches. Such Fools.  Bonnie then [to see Clyde. Our new Porch Furniture was damaged. We had a Rubber mat about ½ inch in thickness all over Funeral House.  

. This odd little historical document comes from the absolutely fantastic George W. Cook Dallas/Texas Image Collection housed in SMU’s DeGolyer Library. The four-page handwritten document can be viewed in its entirety on SMU’s Central University Libraries’ website here. Below is the full account, transcribed by SMU, with a few corrections/additions made by me.

Why did they bother, dig a deep hole but them in a wooden casket and bury them deep - job done

Prior to the 1950s it was common to leave keys in the car.

Kinda nice having someone that was actually there letting us know about it.

Darby’s daughter is still alive and lives in my hometown in south Louisiana.  I’ve always known of this story but never asked Ms. Darby about it, maybe I will the next time I see her.  Great video!

My Aunt was from Arcadia, Louisiana and she saw Bonnie and Clyde on the gurneys dead in the Arcadia funeral home. My grandfather lifted her on his shoulders and she looked in the back window. She said, Bonnie had on green shoes.

Since  we're  on the subject  of the bullet  riddled  car, as a devoted collector of 1:24 scale duecast cars, there was a respected company  called DANBURY  MUNT, I purchased  quite  a lot of models from them, back in 2000, they sent me a flyer in the mail promoting  their new lune up, one of which  included the Bonnie & Clyde  car, complete  with bullet  holes all over the car, I put my order in for it by phone, but about  two weeks later they sent me a letter of apology  stating  that all orders were canceled,  they never gave a sufficient reason why.
At that time, there were so many work related  and school  shootings,  that the DANBURY MINT  probably  felt it was too insensitive  to market something  of that calibration,   so I'm  sure that's  the reason why.

This account is like dark comedy. I’ve never heard about their deaths with such levity.

"Two hours to get the rocks and dirt out of Bonnie's hair, "Two hours, yeah, right, (not possible).

Leaving keys in the ignition was a common or maybe even universal practice in the first half of the last century. I remember PSAs in the ‘50s and 60s telling people not to do that.  I never did it nor did my parents. But in a small town in the early 30s I imagine people weren’t concerned about car theft the way we are now.

Didn't  they ever hear of closed casket funerals?

John Dillinger said that Bonnie and Clyde were "a kill crazy couple of clod hoppers." Later, John Dillinger would meet his end at the hands of a fellah from my hometown. Yep, FBI Agent Melvin Purvis, Jr., was from Timmonsville, South Carolina. His parents were buried in Byrd Cemetery.

The parish deputy was Prentiss  Oakley.

Surprised you didn’t mention the part before the funeral where their bodies were on display to the public for hours. People took all kinds of grotesque photos of them. Literally touching them, pulling stuff off them, exposing Bonnie’s breasts. Many photos of this.

"Mortified" is an adjective that means to be extremely embarrassed, ashamed, or humiliated to the point where you wish you could disappear.
You almost had it! 😂

That is amazing their story of their lives and others involved. Now subscribed to your channel and of course hit the like. Want to keep seeing topics like this

Embalming is not required.

Lo peor que hizo el destino a Bonnie Parker fue a verle puesto en su camino a clay barrow