Sentence examples for modest funeral from inspiring English sources

So, shortly after noon, a far more modest funeral without a body was held for the 150 visitors already on hand.

But this should be only a 'prick', not a great pain (25.37 ff).. On the other hand, Philodemus shows no sympathy with various other fears, such as dying in one's bed rather than in battle, dying while in poor physical condition, or having only a modest funeral.

She was buried the next day in a modest, private funeral service attended only by her closest relatives and friends.

The memorial Mass will be far more modest than the funeral was, but Ronan Tynan, the tenor who frequently sings "God Bless America" at Yankee Stadium, will sing "Panis Angelicus".

Mr. Quinones took some of the money his group had raised for the concerts and arranged for a modest sendoff at Ortiz Funeral Home on Southern Boulevard Monday, followed by a funeral Mass Tuesday.

I would like modest refreshments after my funeral.

It assumes you'll be embalmed, rested in a lined casket, placed in a room for people to visit, grieved over at a modest ceremony at a funeral home, driven to the cemetery in a hearse, lowered into the ground, buried, and have a few flowers placed next to your humble, flat headstone.

Wear a modest black dress for funerals, since this is a very sad occasion.

His son's funeral was a modest but elegant ceremony with the front of the altar adorned with about three dozen large floral arrangements.

Funeral gifts were modest and rather uniform, indicating a society that was neither affluent nor socially diversified.

A lone mourner at her husband's funeral, she had sensed it first in the modest country church he had insisted upon for what he had called his obsequies.