The Region - News from Dec. 30, 1986

Marquette Frye, whose drunken driving arrest sparked the 1965 Watts Riots, was buried in a simple service attended by 50 mourners at Rose Hills Memorial Park near Whittier. Frye, 42, who was found dead of pneumonia on Dec. 20, never wanted to be remembered as the man who started the riots, which were not mentioned at the service. The Rev. Glenn Snyder, assistant pastor of the Universal Mission Church in South Los Angeles, said, “He’s out of all his pain and trouble and misery now.”