Word: caskets
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...hundred thousand Athenians watched as Sophoulis' casket was drawn to burial by an armored car. "Come to give him the last kiss," intoned Athens' Archbishop Spyridon during the funeral service. The King and Queen stepped up and kissed the casket; Frederika had tears in her eyes...
After Birger's death, the Sheltons grew rich and prosperous, settled down on big farms. Bernie's was called Golden Rule Acres. Last week, Bernie got a fine funeral at Boland's mortuary in Peoria. He was laid out in a $3,000 bronze casket, got four roomfuls of flowers. But it looked as though the Sheltons were cooked. Old Earl was a nervous man; he kept looking sidewise and complained bitterly that the law was giving him no protection...
...whiskey.* In 1909, the cemetery in which he was buried was moved to another section of the town. Of 130 corpses, only four-not including Zeb Pike's-were positively identified. The historian recalled that among the bodies moved was one apparently submerged in alcohol in a metal casket. The casket's glass top was broken in disinterment, said he, and the body, exposed to the air, quickly disintegrated...
...authorities at Farmington, Me. were disturbed to discover that Mrs. Rita Brown, to whom the body of her G.I. son (killed three years ago in the Battle of the Bulge) was returned by the Army last November, was still keeping it in her parlor. Mrs. Brown explained that the casket was hermetically sealed. She could not bear to see it lowered into the ground, she said, until the snow melts and the grass turns green...
...amazed at the constant peering into the casket by those present and the conversation concerning the deceased as though she herself were lying in the casket and not her mortal remains. One niece kept a 48-hour vigil beside the body while it lay at the funeral home awaiting burial because she "didn't want Auntie to be left alone" Photographs were made of the body in the casket and distributed among the relatives several weeks later...