In two minutes the body of Tilghman's former comrade, who had been killed by Blue Throat in a gambling brawl the previous night, was carried into the town's funeral parlor to be prepared for decent burial.

Mickie sat over his second whisky-on-the-rocks in a little bar next to the funeral parlor on Pennsylvania Avenue.

The coffin stood on trestles in a corner of the long low dimly lit funeral parlor, on its dark shining surface the sheaf of white roses I had ordered.

In 2006, the Board of Visitors approved the invocation of eminent domain against a neighboring business, a funeral parlor, to make way for the school's new Performing Arts Center.

A funeral home, funeral parlor or mortuary, is a business that provides burial and funeral services for the deceased and their families.

It was said that a Joe Bonanno-owned funeral parlor in Brooklyn was utilized as a convenient front for disposing of bodies: the funeral home's clients were provided with double — decker coffins, and more than one body would be buried at once.

To support the family Phillips worked in a grocery store and then a funeral parlor.

Between 1888 and 1914 numerous business developed along the corridor of Main and High Streets, those included: restaurants, drug stores, barber shops, banks, watch and clock repair shops, cigar factory, funeral parlor and casket factory, among several others.

Laconia at one time boasted three general stores, one on each corner of the town square, three hotels, several millinery stores, two doctors, a funeral parlor, and a saloon.

Phillips, established a funeral parlor.

Within a year, Edcouch had 2 feedstores, a box factory, 2 ice plants, 2 lumber yards, 11 packing sheds, a theater, a furniture store, a funeral parlor, a variety store, 3 grocery stores, a real estate office, a telephone exchange, post office, bank, community center, jail, drugstore, cafe, barbershop, and even its own newspaper — the Edcouch Enterprise.

"... Connie Jones, the New Orleans cornetist working with Jack Teagarden at the time of the trombonist's death, was a pallbearer for the wake, held at a funeral parlor on leafy St. Charles Avenue: ' I remember seeing him there in a coffin, a travelling coffin.

Complications arise in her personal life when funeral parlor beautician Angela joins the household as Dolly's lover and Drew, unable to deal with her obsession with gathering evidence, moves out.

Brann at a funeral parlor

Then the body may be wrapped in a shroud and it is common for relatives to not be able to tell the procedure has been done when the body is viewed in a funeral parlor after embalming.

Crowds of movie stars gathered at the Bresse Brothers funeral parlor to pay homage to Sam.

His profession as a funeral director, for which the Sultenfuss ' residence serves as a funeral parlor, has led Vada to develop an obsession with death.

She befriends Shelly DeVoto ( Jamie Lee Curtis ), the new make-up artist at her father's funeral parlor, who provides her with some much needed guidance.

Some funeral parlor owners chose the Omega Suprema as the preferred car for hearse-based modifications.

He fulfilled his lifelong dream by buying and managing his own funeral parlor, but was tormented by memories of the war.

Among the businesses in the Downtown District are Borgies, a local eatery, Rita's Water Ice, a local chain of relative note, Pina's Pizza, a dressmaker, and Scanlin's funeral home.

Though Vanier had earlier hosted the French president at Government House, neither de Gaulle nor any representative was sent to attend the funeral, which was read by Canadian diplomatic officials as a hint that there had been a change in Canada – France relations and instigated the chain of events that would culminate in de Gaulle's " Vive le Québec libre " speech in Montreal later that year.

Later, Boss Man invaded the funeral and used a chain to couple the coffin to the hearse, towing the coffin away with a grief-stricken Big Show clinging on to it.

In her way, Sophia stormed the funeral, insisting on her presence and simultaneously setting off a chain of events that would result in her regency.

It was symbolized ( at least for those of us who recognized ourselves in the image ) by that self-consuming, elegiac candle of Edna St. Vincent Millay's, that candle which from the quatrain where she ensconced it became a beacon to us, but which in point of fact would have had to be as tall as a funeral taper to last even the evening, let alone the night.

The funeral for my husband was just what I wanted and I paid a fair price, far less than I had expected to pay.

For so long as death was not violent, it was natural and to be welcomed, making a funeral a feast.

Kowalski, a roofer who seldom worked last winter, already was in arrears on their recently purchased split-level home when the tragedy staggered him with medical and funeral bills.

The funeral service was in the house, the Methodist minister, how clean and glistening his eyeglasses and his neat body standing beside that coffin with that doll inside, a stranger speaking to strangers the old sacred words, and the rain drumming incessantly in accompaniment, seven days of relentless rain that turned the ground to mud so the burial had to be postponed.

The closet was faintly fragrant with lavender, and as Lucy shut the door an unhappy memory slipped into her mind, like a lavender ghost: Greg's house, on the day he was buried, and the child, pale, silent, baffled, watching the funeral guests with panicky eyes.

Poirot was buried at Styles, and his funeral was arranged by his best friend Hastings and Hastings ' daughter Judith.

While Poirot's actual death and funeral occurred in " Curtain ", years after his retirement from active investigation, it was not the first time Hastings attended the funeral of his best friend.

Ancient Egyptian civilization was based on religion ; their belief in the rebirth after death became their driving force behind their funeral practices.

At Emerson's request, Alcott helped arrange Thoreau's funeral, which was held at First Parish Sanctuary in Concord, despite Thoreau having disavowed membership in the church when he was in his early twenties.

She was also one of two horses driven by Menelaus at the funeral games of Patroclus.

At his mother's funeral, Nero was witless, speechless and rather scared.

In the funeral games at the pyre of Patroclus, he contended with Odysseus and Antilochus for the prize in the footrace ; but Athena, who was hostile towards him and favored Odysseus, made him stumble and fall, so that he won only the second prize.

His funeral was held in Rome in the Church of Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri.

But if every historian were to assert that Queen Elizabeth was observed walking around happy and healthy after her funeral, and then interpreted that to mean that they had risen from the dead, then we'd have reason to appeal to natural laws in order to dispute their interpretation.

His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.

Holly's funeral was held on February 7, 1959, at the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Lubbock.