# House of Hope *Presbyterian church in St. Paul, Minnesota; site of the memorial service for Hubert H. Humphrey on January 16, 1978.* House of Hope Presbyterian Church, in St. Paul, [[Minnesota]], was the site of the memorial service for Hubert H. Humphrey on January 16, 1978.[^1] The service came three days after Humphrey died, at age 66, at his lake residence in [[Waverly]], [[Wright County, Minnesota]].[^2] The project's dossier cites a same-day report in the [[Minnesota Public Radio]] archive as its source for the service. That report puts the number of dignitaries present at about four hundred and records that MPR carried the service live.[^1] Humphrey was interred the same day at [[Lakewood Cemetery]] in [[Minneapolis]].[^3] ## What The record documents one event at House of Hope, the memorial service for Humphrey held there on January 16, 1978.[^1] The dossier's residency table lists the service in the same table as the Waverly residence, the death, and the burial. It cites the MPR Archive same-day report as the source class for the service entry.[^1] ## When - January 13, 1978: Humphrey died at the Waverly residence, age 66. The dossier's sources for this are marker text and contemporaneous reporting.[^2] - January 16, 1978: the memorial service was held at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, and was broadcast live by MPR.[^1] - January 16, 1978: Humphrey was interred at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, in Section 51, Lot A, Grave 1. The dossier's source for this is the cemetery's own burial record.[^3] ## Where The service was held at House of Hope Presbyterian Church in St. Paul.[^1] Humphrey's residence was on Lake Waverly, in Waverly, Wright County.[^2] The dossier dates his acquisition of that property to the mid-1950s. It notes that its sources give both 1956 and 1958, that the deed was not retrieved, and that no single year should be stated.[^2] The burial was at Lakewood Cemetery in Minneapolis.[^3] ## How many The dossier, citing the MPR Archive same-day report, gives about four hundred dignitaries at the service.[^1] The at-issue entry on the service gives the same figure for dignitaries. It also states that roughly a thousand people attended in total. That attendance figure does not appear in the dossier table.[^4] ## In the at-issue record The at-issue entry AI-Humphrey-092 sets the scale of the St. Paul service beside the place of death.[^4] It appears in the section *The Waverly Promise & the Boundary County Edition* and is dated January 16, 1978. In the entry's words, "The funeral was a state occasion." The entry describes the place of death as a lake house "in a town of four hundred."[^4] The entry lists one source, of the archive kind, on the domain archive.mpr.org, and names the contemporaneous broadcast record as the primary source. The only URL it carries, however, is a July 2026 White House fact sheet, and the MPR archive item itself is not in the record.[^4] The record does not establish Waverly's population in 1978. ## Notes [^1]: Project dossier, *HHH_Waverly_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-02.md* §II (validated), memorial service row, which cites the MPR Archive same-day report. It establishes the service at House of Hope Presbyterian Church, St. Paul, on January 16, 1978, with about 400 dignitaries, broadcast live by MPR. The pack carries no URL for the MPR Archive item. [^2]: Project dossier, *HHH_Waverly_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-02.md* §II (validated), residence, acquisition and death rows, which cite marker text and contemporaneous reporting. They establish the Lake Waverly residence in Waverly, Wright County, acquired in the mid-1950s (1956 or 1958, deed not retrieved), and Humphrey's death there on January 13, 1978, at age 66. The pack carries no URL. [^3]: Project dossier, *HHH_Waverly_Apex_Dossier_2026-09-02.md* §II (validated), burial row, which cites the Lakewood Cemetery burial record. It establishes burial at Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, in Section 51, Lot A, Grave 1, interred January 16, 1978. The pack carries no URL. [^4]: The White House, *The White House Government Transparency Task Force Fact Sheet* (July 2026), the anchor URL listed for at-issue entry AI-Humphrey-092. The entry describes the January 16, 1978 service at House of Hope as drawing roughly a thousand people and about four hundred dignitaries, broadcast live by MPR, and names archive.mpr.org as its underlying source. https://www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/07/the-white-house-government-transparency-task-force-fact-sheet/