Saturday, June 16, 2007
"Cream of Wheat man" gets gravestone
Here's a heartwarming story out of Michigan. Frank L. White was a Chicago chef who is the man depicted on the millions of Cream of Wheat hot cereal boxes sold over the last 100 years.
A Lansing, Michigan man, Jesse Lasorda, was the driving force behind the effort to get a gravestone for White--whose cemetery marker was granite post with no name listed.
But Chef White has his gravestone, one that includes on etching of the man with the famous grin.
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