Dorothy Parker’s Ashes Could Be Moved. Again.

“You would hate to think she would be a nomad again,” Mr. Henderson said.

John Wesley, another official who attended the burial ceremony, said that when he heard the N.A.A.C.P. was moving its headquarters, one of the first questions he asked was what would happen to Ms. Parker’s remains.

“I do not want to see Dorothy’s ashes in some place where she is disassociated from her contribution to the civil rights movement for African-Americans,” said Mr. Wesley, now the public information officer for Baltimore’s Office of Equity and Civil Rights.

Other fans agreed. Francine Gordon, a Dorothy Parker enthusiast who lives in Florida, said she hoped the N.A.A.C.P. would take Ms. Parker to the new headquarters.

“She always had abandonment issues,” said Ms. Gordon, a nonprofit director, referring to Ms. Parker’s unhappy love life and three marriages (two of which were to the same man, Alan Campbell). “It is happening again!”

If not, Ms. Gordon said, Ms. Parker’s ashes should be displayed in the lobby of the Algonquin Hotel near Times Square, where a group of prominent writers and critics, including Ms. Parker, gathered almost daily for lunch in the 1920s. The manager of the Algonquin Hotel declined to comment.

Another fan, Marjorie Stewart, said Ms. Parker’s ashes should move with the N.A.A.C.P., or perhaps go to a civil rights museum. She also liked the idea of moving Ms. Parker’s remains to New York because she was the quintessential New Yorker, Ms. Stewart said, and she was never that thrilled in Hollywood, where she was a writer of the screenplay for the 1937 film “A Star Is Born.”

“Some people are homebodies, and you would have to leave them where they were because of that,” said Ms. Stewart, a playwright and English professor. “But I see her as a free spirit.”