Dan Herrick
PCS Life Member - Upstate Chapter President
I have also seen them in full dress for the funeral but they never were the doorman and parking lot attendants!
Strange Funerals
- Thread starter Mike Boyer
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I have also seen them in full dress for the funeral but they never were the doorman and parking lot attendants!
The last time I heard of a State Trooper opening the door for someone, it was the Governor of Connecticut, and he was being taken to jail. Come to think of it, a lot of governors have gone to jail in recent years. Must be the stress of the job.... 
hmmmm we don't seem to have that problem up here in Canada
Martin Harvey
PCS Member
I had a women in deep depression after a childbirth who jumped inside the casket of her late mother, removed the pants of the deceased and started to kiss her legs...
Dunno why but I was in my office, I heard yelling and in a room full of more than 100 people I was the only one who grabbed the lady out.
Dunno why but I was in my office, I heard yelling and in a room full of more than 100 people I was the only one who grabbed the lady out.
Seems that you have a different kind of problem in Canada...
:rofl1:
Jeremy D. Ledford
PCS Volunteer Chapter President
Mike, reading this reminds me of a similar situation I had happen only with a vault. A few years back a number of directors in our area were taking funerals out for a funeral home a few miles away for the owner/director whom was very ill at the time. When I would conduct a service for them I was usually always there about 3 hours before service time. On this particular service it was a very good thing I was! When I arrived I would check with the staff, familarize my self with the family and to see if everything was in order and lined up, music, clergy, cars, flowers, chapel set up, grave, vault, THE VAULT!!!! They hadn't even ordered the blasted vault which they should have the day before as they were told to by the director who arranged the services! The call was immediately made to the vault plant some 25 miles from the cemetery. Of course they were all panicked and was wondering what we would do. I told them be calm, do everything as normal (not to queue anyone off that there is a actual catastrophe happening) and that I would make everything work out fine. We start the service at 2:00 p.m. on the dot. We went through the service as normal, I viewed everyone out one pew at a time slowly and gave the family as long as the needed. Escorted the family out to their cars after they had their time, came back in the chapel and loaded the flowers and sent them on and giving them about a 10 minute head start, closed the casket and placed it in the hearse. Then I escorted the family on to their cars giving them instruction at each car in the prosession line up about lights etc. Made one last sweep through chapel and came back out and gave the escort specific instruction to keep the speed 10 to 15 mph as we were going through the middle of town and we started the procession slowing down to a crawl at each intersection to that everyone could see the hearse and there was a procession to ya know! And as I made it to the top of the hill at the cemetery the vault truck was just pulling away from the grave! Why the delays ya ask? The cemetery was only about 3 miles from the funeral home! A procession that should have taken about less than 10 minutes took us about 20+ minutes! The only ones who knew of the problem were the staff, vault service and grave crew. Talk about sweating bullets!
True Paul..... we do have our own problems up here at least we don't the TEA PARTY ! lol...up here...its called the GREEN TEA PARTY !! a Canadian thing !
Bill Carlin
PCS Life Member
This just happend this week. One of our recent funerals was featured in the most recent National Enquirer. Picture of one of my director's and my hearse inside. The article is full of false information, the entire thing was very upsetting to the family.
Rick Franklin
PCS Member
I recall reading in the paper here a few years ago where the pall bearers exited the church after a service carrying the casket, only to see the hearse driving away. It seems the Funeral Director had left the keys in the car and some local gang bangers stole it. It was found several days later 200 miles away in a church parking lot. Another one that comes to mind was a friend of mine is a repo man and he had an order to repo a funeral homes hearse. When the service was over & they were headed to the cemetary, the FD was surprised to find Dave sitting in the drivers seat. Dave told him the car was being repo'd but to save face, the FD could ride in the passenger seat, Dave would drive the deceased to the cemetary & after the graveside service, he was taking the car & the FD could ride back to the funeral home in the limo
Bill Carlin
PCS Life Member
I forgot to state that there was a celebrity at the funeral. My funeral home had nothing to do with the picture being taken, in fact we had a "scout" outside looking to make sure no one was taking pictures. The family was not upset with me or the funeral home.
Who was the celebrity ?