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
Whittaker caught a flight to L.A. and was at the senator’s hospital bedside when he died and then served as a pallbearer at the funeral.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026
If she is asked to help at a service, she is often the only female pallbearer - but recently, at one funeral, there were four women working.
From BBC • Nov. 8, 2023
Kara-Murza holds both British and Russian citizenship and was a pallbearer at the funeral of U.S.
From Reuters • Apr. 6, 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
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