PLANNED HER FUNERAL
LONDON, 4th November. Wearing blue veils and white dresses, designed by Mrs. J. L. Parker before she died, six choir girls followed her coffin, which was covered with a royal blue- pall njado by herself, to Polruan Church, Cornwall. Mrs. Parker planned all the details of her funeral and designed the mourning cards. The mourners were her husband, who is vicar of Lanteglos-by-Fowcy, and licr brother-in-law. After a hymn of praise, which she chose, had been sung, ! her coffin was taken out to sea on a tug, and the remains and the wreaths were committed to the deep. ' The pall was .taken back to the church for future funerals.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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112PLANNED HER FUNERAL Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 125, 24 November 1930, Page 9
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