Luper given exception

 

Published: June 17, 2011

Luper given exception

Clara Luper is only the second person to lie in repose at the state Capitol with no direct ties to an elected state official, documents show.

Aviator Wiley Post was the other. He was killed in a 1935 airplane crash, said Michael Dean , a spokesman with the Oklahoma Historical Society .

The bodies of two other nonelected persons were allowed to lie in repose in the Capitol,...


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