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The last few funerals I've been to they didn't even have pallbearers. The churches were built such that they could roll the coffin right to and into the hearse. The cemetery had a turf friendly version of the coffin support that they rolled right to the grave. The last time I served as a pallbearer was at an old country church with a steep 6 feet tall set of steps.
Was the cemetery a large one? My aunt was buried in Milwaukee. The cemetery is huge, the traffic is bad so they don't attempt funeral processions. They have a pamphlet they distribute at the funerals with a map to and into the cemetery to the grave site. It seems that cemeteries are laid out by drunks with roadways in haphazard patterns that make no sense. If I was designing a cemetery, the roads would be in a grid pattern with numbered streets running North and South and Avenues running East and West.
Was the cemetery a large one? My aunt was buried in Milwaukee. The cemetery is huge, the traffic is bad so they don't attempt funeral processions. They have a pamphlet they distribute at the funerals with a map to and into the cemetery to the grave site. It seems that cemeteries are laid out by drunks with roadways in haphazard patterns that make no sense. If I was designing a cemetery, the roads would be in a grid pattern with numbered streets running North and South and Avenues running East and West.