"Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's MLK Jr Day. No hate. Blah, blah, blah. Fun fact for you. My favorite writer, Dorothy Parker died on June 7, 1967. That's about a year before Mr. King died. Why is this relevant? Because Dorothy Parker willed her ENTIRE estate to Martin Luther King Jr. He took the money. Her ashes, though, lingered in a cardboard box in her attorney's office until 1988, when the NAACP finally decided they should probably thank her and give her a proper burial. Cute, huh?"
Now I don't know much about the subject, but I did a simple Google search and came up with this for a response:
I'm not sure where you got that, but it looks like it is only part of the story:
"Parker didn't want a funeral, but Hellman held one anyway, and made herself the star attraction. Her memorial ceremony was held at the Frank E. Campbell funeral home, on the corner of East 81st Street and Madison Avenue, just seven blocks from the Volney.
Within a year of her death, Dr. King was assassinated, and the Parker estate rolled over to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. To this day, the NAACP benefits from the royalty of all Parker publications and productions.
She was cremated, and this is where the story takes a sharp right turn. Parker was cremated June 9, 1967, at Ferncliff Crematory in Hartsdale, New York. Hellman, who made all the funeral arrangements, never told the crematory what to do with the ashes. So they sat on a shelf in Hartsdale. Six years later, on July 16, 1973, the ashes were mailed to Mrs. Parker's lawyer's offices, O'Dwyer and Bernstein, 99 Wall Street. Paul O'Dwyer, her attorney, didn't know what to do with the little box of ashes. It sat on a shelf, on a desk, and for 15 years, in a filing cabinet.
http://www.dorothyparker.com/dot33.htm
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