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Farewell to Maury
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"An 82-year-old man, childless and ailing, could have had a lonely funeral. That's not what's happening today," said Maury Maverick Jr.'s "sort of double cousin," lawyer Merrill Maverick Clements, speaking for the family to about 1,200 people who filled O'Neil Ford's spectacular Trinity University chapel, overflowing into the choir's balcony, the morning of February first at Maury's funeral service. Among those present were former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright, Maury's former Texas House coll...