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.

Upon his death, as he requested, he had no memorial or funeral service.

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.

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.

Eisenhower's funeral service

On March 31, Eisenhower's body was returned to the National Cathedral, where he was given an Episcopal Church funeral service.

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

a funeral service in Coniston village attended by his widow Tonia, daughter Gina, other members of his family, members of his former team, and admirers.

Coleman's former manager Dion Mial was involved initially, but withdrew after Coleman's 1999 will, which named Mial as executor and directed that his wake be "... conducted by those with no financial ties to me and can look each other in the eyes and say they really cared personally for Gary Colemen ", turned out to be superseded by a later one replacing Mial with Gray, and directing "... that there be no funeral service, wake, or other ceremony memorializing my passing.

Hearses and other funeral service vehicles in the U. S. are often equipped with purple light bars and other flashing lights similar to those found in emergency vehicles in order to increase the visibility of the vehicle while in processions.

Since the working life of a hearse is generally one of light duty and short, sedate drives, hearses remain serviceable for a long time ; hearses 30 years old or more may still be in service, although some funeral homes replace them at least once a decade.

At a funeral service for a total stranger, Harold meets Maude ( Ruth Gordon ), a 79-year-old woman who shares Harold's hobby of attending funerals.

President Richard Nixon delivered another eulogy at the funeral service in the National Presbyterian Church.

Robinson's funeral service on October 27, 1972, at New York City's Riverside Church attracted 2, 500 mourners.

Only posthumously did he receive the praise and appreciation which had escaped him in life: he was awarded a hero's funeral and numerous medals by the USSR, including the title of Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest distinction awarded for heroic feats in service to the Soviet state and society.

At her funeral service, John White ( the Bishop of Winchester ) praised Mary: " She was a king's daughter ; she was a king's sister ; she was a king's wife.

During the seven-day state funeral, Nancy, accompanied by her children and military escort, led the nation in mourning by keeping a strong composure, traveling from her home to the Reagan Library for a memorial service, then to Washington, D. C., where her husband's body lay in state for 34 hours prior to a national funeral service in the Washington National Cathedral.

In 2007, she attended the national funeral service for Gerald Ford in the Washington National Cathedral.

* 2006 – The funeral service takes place for those executed at Bykivnia forest, outside Kiev, Ukraine.

On the anniversary of her father's death she poured out with agonized tears her feelings of guilt about not having attended his funeral.

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.

His funeral was attended by only ten people.

He attended Churchill's funeral in January 1965.

There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.

Hilbert's funeral was attended by fewer than a dozen people, only two of whom were fellow academics, among them Arnold Sommerfeld, a theoretical physicist and also a native of Königsberg.

The funeral was attended by dignitaries from the Vermont government, and by large numbers of common folk who turned out to pay respects to a man many considered their champion.

His funeral was attended by 3, 000 at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York on a cold, rainy day.

He successfully brought Wishart back to port in Malta and then attended the funeral of King George V in January 1936.

Mountbatten attended the funeral of King George VI in June 1952 and, having been promoted to the substantive rank of full admiral on 27 February 1953, he attended the coronation of the Queen Elizabeth II in June 1953.

He died of lymphoma in Kensington, London, on 2 March 1939 at the age of 64 and his funeral was poorly attended.

His funeral was well attended, with estimates of the number of mourners along the two hour march ranging from 15, 000 to over 50, 000.

Konrad Adenauer's state funeral in Cologne Cathedral was attended by a large number of world leaders, among them United States President Lyndon B. Johnson.

Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, President Chaim Herzog, all cabinet ministers present in Israel, Supreme Court justices, Knesset members from most parties and a number of foreign ambassadors attended the funeral.

She attended the funeral of Lady Bird Johnson in Austin, Texas on July 14, 2007 and three days later accepted the highest Polish distinction, the Order of the White Eagle, on behalf of Ronald Reagan at the Reagan Library.

Only Mackenzie Bowell and the Viscount Bennett were given private funerals, Bennett also being the only former Prime Minister of Canada to die and be buried outside the country and Bowell the only whose funeral was not attended by politicians.

Kekkonen attended the funeral and praised Nurmi: " People explore the horizons for a successor.

Hitler attended, and placed Heydrich's decorations — including the highest grade of the German Order, the Blood Order Medal, the Wound Badge in Gold and the War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords — on his funeral pillow.

He was granted a state funeral on 14 September, which was attended by over 1, 000 mourners including Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser, Premier Neville Wran, Mervyn Wood, Justice Lionel Murphy and former NSW Labor Premier and former Governor-General Sir William McKell.

His funeral was attended by over 10, 000 people, including numerous ambassadors and other diplomats from the United States and Western Europe.