Norman Rockwell (62 page)

During his short and powerful eulogy, David commented that “the world pays tribute to [Rockwell] for his creation of beauty and that is important, but more important was the man behind those images: the sensitive mind, the discerning eye, the loving heart, the generous spirit. We will let the world and time take care of his art, the pictures and the images and what they may say to us. What we say farewell to today is the man, our friend and neighbor.”

The sons sat up front with Molly, who, true to the word she had given David, stiffly remained dry-eyed, resolute in her desire not to cry private tears in a public forum. She knew how to do right by her husband; she could rise to the occasion, as the New England schoolteacher had always prompted her husband to do when he thought himself too tired or too sick to behave properly. Peter Rockwell led her out of the church, where honor guards of Cub and Boy Scouts lining the paths stood at attention. The coffin was taken to the cemetery a few blocks away, next door to the first house that Mary and Norman had inhabited back in 1954, when they moved to Stockbridge to begin the final leg of their journey together.

Rockwell was buried in a modest plot overlooking an expanse of brilliant green pasture off Church Street. His simple marble tombstone gives his name and the dates of life and death, nothing more. On one side of him, slightly to the upper left, is Mary Rockwell’s grave. Six years later, and by virtue of the artist’s forethought, Molly Rockwell’s would be exactly the same size, with the same imprinting, and in the same position, but to the right of Rockwell’s marker. Both women would have smiled at their husband’s typical tactfulness, and at the way that the artist once again seemed to have it all.

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