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A hearse (/ h ɜːr s /) is a large vehicle, originally a horse carriage but later with the introduction of motor vehicles, a car, used to carry the body of a deceased person in a coffin to a funeral, wake, or graveside service. They range from deliberately anonymous vehicles to heavily decorated vehicles.
The state hearse is a vehicle of the Royal Mews used for funerals of the British royal family. Based on a Jaguar XJ model, it was designed by the Royal Household and Jaguar Land Rover with the input of and approval from Elizabeth II and converted by UK-based coachbuilders Premiere Sheet Metal, while Wilcox Limousines created the interior ...
On April 25, 1865, the hearse, carrying Lincoln's body, was drawn through the streets of Manhattan en route to New York City Hall.It was accompanied by an "astounding" escort of 160,000 people, including soldiers, sailors, Marines, and dignitaries, in a lumbering and somber procession observed by half-a-million spectators.
A former funeral home owner accused of keeping a woman's corpse in the back of a hearse for two years and hoarding the cremated remains of 35 people has been arrested, authorities said. Thursday ...
(Reuters) -A former Colorado funeral home owner was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison on Tuesday for defrauding relatives of the dead by dissecting 560 corpses and selling body parts without ...
This is usually more economical for the funeral home when a new hearse is purchased, as opposed to purchasing a second new vehicle. The first call vehicle is sometimes operated by an outside company that has contracts with various mortuaries and funeral homes, rather than by the funeral homes. In the UK, these are known as private ambulances. [1]
Jon Hallford, 44, and Carie Hallford, 47, operated the Return to Nature funeral home, which specialized in ‘green burials’ Funeral homeowners accused of giving families fake ashes and leaving ...
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