Boston Globe, MA
March 7 2009

State House ceremony planned for Keverian, former House speaker

March 7, 2009 01:43 PM Email| Comments (0)|
By Eric Moskowitz, Globe staff

A public memorial service will be held at the State House Wednesday
for George Keverian, the former speaker of the Massachusetts House of
Representatives, who was found dead at 77 in his Everett home Friday.

The remembrance will be held at noon in the House Chamber, where
Mr. Keverian served as a lawmaker for a quarter century, and where he
presided as speaker from 1985 until he left the post in 1990 to seek
the Democratic nomination for state treasurer. After the ceremony, his
body will lie in state from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. in Memorial Hall, also
known as the Hall of Flags, at the State House.

Current and former lawmakers, governors, and other dignitaries are
expected, and the public is encouraged to attend, said Dusty Rhodes,
the Boston event planner who is helping to organize the
memorial. Rhodes is Mr. Keverian’s niece by marriage.

Prior to the State House remembrance, a wake will be held Tuesday from
3 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Holy Trinity Armenian Apostolic Church of Greater
Boston, at 145 Brattle St. in Cambridge.

The Cambridge church will also be the site of Mr. Keverian’s funeral
service, which will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. Burial will follow at
Glenwood Cemetery in Everett.

In lieu of flowers, Rhodes said, donations may be made to the Eliza
Keverian Charitable Foundation, a fund that serves the needy and was
established in memory of Mr. Keverian’s mother. Donations may be sent
to the fund care of Bank of America, 100 Federal St., Boston, 02110.

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