Prinicipal Mourner- more often the Coffin- as a hearse is a motor vehicle running at road speeds! This writer fulfilled this task- on foot- in front of my Mother"s casket at the funeral mass. The eldest Survivor in the direct family usually has this assignment.
The person who walks BEHIND the casket on entering the church at a funeral is the closest living relative- and is called the Principal Mourner. I fulfilled this task almost exactly a year ago ( 3.l2.l0) for my Mother.
Might be just a traffic cop, should have white gloves in this role, though.
Depends on whether the hearse is based on the DeVille (FWD) or Fleetwood (RWD)
I think it might symbolize the cleansing of sins of the deceased's soul before burial. any other thoughts? Edit: That water is the water they used to bathe the corpse. It had become an Irish tradition to hold it back, then later throw it in front of the funeral procession.
YES, coachbuilders offered hearses on both the RWD and FWD Cadillac chassis in 1989
see front and walk
It is normally the immediate family of the person that has died, such as parents, brothers and sisters, if there are no immediate relatives then it would be aunts, uncles cousins and so on, however it is up to the family arranging the funeral to decide who goes where. Indeed, the deceased may have already decided before they died by making their own funeral arrangements.
roger clay
Get in front of them and start walking.
By walking through the front door
He is trying to control you.
the family to request a few associates of the deceased to serve as honorary pallbearers. They do not actively assist in carrying the casket, they usually walk beside or in front of the casket.
yes they do , its in their front legs . LOL!
Well, when walking in front of a horse, you should not yell or make any jerky movements. If you do, the horse might startle. And when a horse startles, anything could happen.