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EARL'S DOUGHBOY DATABASE GRANDMA QUATER'S DOUGHBOY LAMP A TRIBUTE TO T. PERRY WESLEY
"So Closes the Book, the Story Ends"
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Viquesney's last piece, Comrades, depicting a WWI Doughboy greeting his WWII GI counterpart.
With the death of his second wife, Betty, on August 21, 1946, just 16 days after his 70th birthday, Viquesney felt he had been dealt a mortal blow. He committed suicide on October 4, 1946, one day after the anniversary of the death of his first wife, Cora. The obituary below contains a "life history" written by Viquesney himself, which he had arranged to be delivered to the local newspaper. In it, he claims "nearly 870" Doughboy memorials, and almost "treble" that number for his recent WWII memorial, Spirit of the Fighting Yank, numbers that are impossibly high in light of the ones that have been found, and maintains that every statue he ever made bore the name of his beloved hometown of Spencer, Indiana, apparently forgetting the many Doughboys he made that bear the name of Americus, GA, including the very first one that ensured his fame, which still stands today in Nashvile, GA.
E. M. Viquesney's self-written obituary.
