A long-ago gift from the ‘King of Hollywood’ still helps beautify Palmyra West Cemetery

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A long-ago gift from the ‘King of Hollywood’ still helps beautify Palmyra West Cemetery

- Wendy DiAlesandro

Palmyra West Cemetery is the final resting place of a not-so-famous woman whose stepson was once known as the “King of Hollywood.”

Clark Gable, star of “Gone With the Wind,” “It Happened One Night” and more, regarded his stepmother Jennie Gable (nee Dunlap) so highly that he wanted her final resting place to be tended forever. That took money, which at the time Gable didn’t have.

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