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.

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.

A funeral parlor chain was indicted for price-cutting.

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.

They held the funeral the next morning from the crossroads church and buried the little box in the quiet family plot.

After the funeral service, a tribute concert was held at the Martin Luther King Center, also in Gainesville, and featured performances by his son and daughter, Anthony McDaniel and Evelyn Kelly, long-time background vocalist Gloria Jolivet, co-producer Scott " Skyntyte " Free, Diddley's touring band, The Debby Hastings Band, and guest artist Eric Burdon.

The funeral, held two days later on 27 December, was a small and private Anglican ceremony, according to Chaplin's wish.

Earnhardt's funeral was held on February 22, 2001 at the Calvary Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

It was there that his father died and the funeral was held.

Dewar's funeral service was held at Glasgow Cathedral, amid scenes of mourning unknown for a politician in Scotland's largest city.

On Wednesday, 7 March 2012, a private funeral service was held at Holy Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, Florida.

A funeral service was then held at St Andrew's Church in Coniston

In October her body was brought from Kyūshū by sea to Port Naniwa-zu ( today Osaka city ); and her state funeral was held in early November.

No funeral was held for him, and his wife never revealed his burial site.

Shortly after he returned home, Frederick Douglass died of a massive heart attack or stroke in Washington, D. C. His funeral was held at the Metropolitan African Methodist Episcopal Church where thousands passed by his coffin paying tribute.

With them came various other gods and beings during which a grand funeral for Baldr was held.

On December 18, 1799, a funeral was held at Mount Vernon, where his body was interred.

Her closed-casket funeral ( recommended by the funeral director due to the ravages of AIDS, which was not properly understood at the time ) was held on November 21 at a small funeral home in Philadelphia.

Himmler modified a variety of existing customs to emphasize the elitism and central role of the SS ; an SS naming ceremony was to replace baptism, marriage ceremonies were to be altered, a separate SS funeral ceremony was to be held in addition to Christian ceremonies, and SS-centric celebrations of the summer and winter solstice were instituted.

His simple funeral was held at All Saints Episcopal Church with musical selections from Bogart's favorite composers, Johann Sebastian Bach and Claude Debussy.

The Argonauts realized their horrible mistake when dawn came and held a funeral for him.

His close friend, President Ronald Reagan, gave the eulogy at the funeral, which was held at Manhattan's St. Francis de Sales Roman Catholic Church.

This incident spurred reprisal killings and sabotage across the Rhineland, and when Krupp held a large, public funeral for the workers, he was fined and jailed by the French.

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

He claimed to be visiting the waterfront saloon at the crossroads to play cards and drink with his cronies, but Kate had not smelled brandy on him since Mrs. Lattimer's funeral.

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 " The Big Four " ( 1927 ) Poirot feigned his death and subsequent funeral in order to launch a surprise attack on the Big Four.

* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.

Achilles and Ajax play a board game with knucklebones on this late 6th-century lekythos, a type of oil-storing vessel associated with funeral rites

The most distinguished funeral honors were paid to his remains, which were deposited in the temple at Possagno on 25 October 1822.

The Times reported on 6 November 1995 that Prince Charles had stated on that day to Tony Blair and Paddy Ashdown, after the funeral of Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, that " Catholics should be able to ascend to the British throne ".

Scyld ’ s funeral helps the poet to elaborate on the glory of battle in a heroic society and how earthly possessions help define a person ‘ s importance.

* Youths riding around on horses at the funeral of a great man-Anchises and Pallas in the Aeneid and Beowulf in Beowulf.

The loss devastated Montgomery, but he insisted on throwing himself back into his work immediately after the funeral.

During the final year of communist Hungary in the late 1980s, the Hungarian government, along with his two sons, Béla III and Péter, requested that his remains be exhumed and transferred back to Budapest for burial, where Hungary arranged a state funeral for him on July 7, 1988.

According to Ivinskaya, People who arrived in Peredelkino early in the morning on the day of the funeral told us that militiamen, commanded by very senior officers, were already stationed at the approaches to the village.

The funeral of the royal couple Aleksandar Obrenović and Draga Mašin on 29 May 1903 after the May Overthrow

Mumy read the eulogy at Harris ' funeral and was asked to narrate his longtime friend's life on A & E Biography that same year.

His funeral, a four-hour " homegoing " service, took place on June 7, 2008, at Showers of Blessings Church in Gainesville, Florida and kept in tune with the vibrant spirit of Bo Diddley's life and career.

Claudius ' ashes were interred in the Mausoleum of Augustus on 24 October, after a funeral in the manner of Augustus.

May 2010 also saw the funeral of Coronation Street favourite Blanche Hunt, who was written out after the death of her portrayer Maggie Jones on 2 December 2009.