Inverness, Fla. ? Ted Williams’ oldest daughter is urging former Sen. John Glenn and President Bush to help stop her half-brother from keeping the body of the baseball great in deep freeze.

In an open letter released Wednesday night, Bobby-Jo Williams Ferrell said her father wanted to be cremated, not frozen at a cryonics lab in Arizona.

Ferrell has accused her half-brother, John Henry Williams, of having their father’s body moved to Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Ariz. Ferrell has said Williams wants to preserve their father’s body for possible future financial gain.

Williams, the last major leaguer to bat better than .400 in a season, died Friday in Florida at 83.

“I need anyone and everyone, famous or not, if they have knowledge about my daddy’s wishes to be cremated to stand up and be heard at this time,” Ferrell said.

She called on Glenn, a former senator and astronaut who flew with Ted Williams when both were fighter pilots in the Korean War, and Bush and his father, the former president, to help her fight her half-brother.

“John Glenn appreciated my daddy’s being his wingman. I want John Glenn to come forward now and come to his friend’s aid,” Ferrell said. “President Bush and his father need to come forward and ‘work in this campaign’ for your old friend liked he worked for you.”

Glenn did not return a phone call to his Maryland home.

Attorneys for Williams’ estate plan to ask a judge to decide what should happen to the body when they file the will in Florida court by Monday.

Whether Williams specified in his will that he wanted to be cremated is crucial since Alcor, on the application it gives prospective customers, said that a will with provisions contrary to the “goals of cryonics” will invalidate any agreement with the company.

Kay Munday, who managed Williams’ household from 1989-1995, said Thursday that she believed John Henry took advantage of his father, forcing him to sign endless memorabilia and documents that the elder Williams didn’t understand. John Henry has not returned numerous calls for comment.

“When I was there, I saw him push many documents in front of him … He didn’t know what he was signing,” said Munday, whose husband, Bill, also worked as a companion to Williams.

Another former Williams employee, Jack Gard, said Williams had told him that he wanted to be cremated and have his ashes scattered with those of his Dalmatian, Slugger, in the Florida Keys and Fenway Park.

Gard, who worked as a health aide for Williams between 1998-2000, said Williams in his later years often wasn’t lucid enough to understand what papers he was signing. Gard said he didn’t know if Williams had signed papers agreeing to have his body frozen.

“Anybody in their right mind would know he wasn’t capable of signing any papers,” said Gard, fired by John Henry after the younger Williams accused him of trying to sell Ted Williams memorabilia.

But a doctor who treated the Hall of Famer at a University of Florida hospital said John Henry wanted to freeze his father’s body out of love and respect, not for financial gain.

“My sense of John was of a kid who adored his dad and would do anything and everything for him,” Dr. A. Joseph Layon told The Gainesville Sun. “I never got a sense of an exploitative relationship, or that he saw his dad as a meal ticket.”

Ferrell said she and her husband, Mark, had known for a year about John Henry’s desire to have their father’s body sent to the cryonics lab after he died.

“It is unfortunate that I have been put into a corner to fight for what is right and for my father’s final wishes,” she said in the letter. “I too am on a final mission to save ‘Ted Williams.”‘