FORT WORTH, Texas -- Funeral arrangements were being kept secret for Marguerite Oswald, mother of Lee Harvey Oswald, who the Warren Commission said acted alone in killing President John F. Kennedy.
A spokesman for Baumgardner's Funeral Home said Sunday that Mrs. Oswald's son, Robert, had been the only person to view her body.
He said Robert traveled from his home in Wichita Falls, Texas, to Fort Worth to make arrangements for the burial and then returned home.
The spokesman said services for Mrs. Oswald, 73, would be private but that she would be buried in Fort Worth. He declined to reveal when funeral services would occur and said the family had requested no details be made public.
Mrs. Oswald died Saturday morning of cancer.
'She was alone and estranged from her family and had to make all the decisions concerning her own care and welfare,' said her doctor, John Johnson.
Johnson said one of the woman's last requests was to be buried next to Lee Harvey Oswald in Rose Hill cemetery. Oswald was buried at Rose Hill after he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby in the basement of the Dallas police station, two days after the Kennedy assassination.
Mrs. Oswald conducted an often bitter campaign against the findings of the Warren Commission, which concluded her son acted alone in killing Kennedy in Dallas Nov. 22, 1963.
'The Warren Commission was wrong,' she said in 1977, on her 70th birthday. 'I'm going to defend Lee Harvey Oswald until the day I die.'
She said she had conducted an investigation of the assassination and it confirmed her son's innocence. She said he was undoubtedly a U.S. intelligence agent who had been framed.
Contacted in Rockwall, Texas, Marina Oswald Porter, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald, said she was saddened by the death. She had not had any contact with Mrs. Oswald for many years.
In mid-1980, Mrs. Porter gave permission for exhumation of the Fort Worth grave marked 'OSWALD' to identify the remains, if there were any. The exhumation plan, denied by a lower court, is being appealed.
