She directed that at the close of the service her body be cremated and that ``no friend or kin accompany the body further than the church door''. In her will Mrs Hale said ``If I live in the memory of my friends,I shall have lived long enough''. Hale had no children, but two sisters, writer Myla Jo Closser (1880-1962) of New York City, and Belle Closser Wilson of Indianapolis, survived her.
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