pallbearer
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After Kennedy’s assassination, Whittaker was a pallbearer at the funeral in St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 15, 2026
After giving a statement to the deputies that morning, Pope arrived at his sister’s funeral, where he was supposed to be a pallbearer, just as everyone was leaving.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2025
Hannah said one of the rooms they used was where a pallbearer would "lower the coffins down before they would be cremated... obviously they don’t use it any more".
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2024
Kara-Murza had been a friend of Sen. John McCain and was a pallbearer at his 2018 funeral.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 17, 2023
Now here I was, by myself, coming back from being a pallbearer at a funeral of a girl around my age who had no idea she was going to go.
From "The Boy in the Black Suit" by Jason Reynolds
Just under two years later and both Ewie and Frans would be pallbearers at Hansie's funeral following his shock death in a plane crash.
From BBC ● Jul. 30, 2025
It was lifted by pallbearers and carried into the church.
From New York Times ● Nov. 20, 2024
At the front of the cathedral, pallbearers placed the casket next to a large photo of a smiling Valenzuela.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024
A grieving O’Connor wept on the steps of the Supreme Court as pallbearers carried Rehnquist’s body to lie in state in the Great Hall of the court.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2023
He died in his third year in high school and I was one of his pallbearers, and I think I was guilty of the sin of pride at being chosen.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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