Memorial Service

Local Memorial Service Outside the funeral agency two employees dressed for their job, stood smoking, by the pavement a hearse with coffin inside stood waiting. finally, they threw the butts in the gutter started The car to take to the church where the casket would be decorated with flowers and then with a cortège of mourners followed behind led by the local padre. There were no many men among the marchers, they thronged the bar on the way and only joined in the last minutes. The padre did the rituals and packed up and left the mourners cried and there were many handshakes among the people and talk about the dead person who apparently had been a bit of a bastard cheating in cards and not to be trusted. Of course, nothing of this was uttered at the cemetery it was later in the bar the person of ill-repute was mentioned