pallbearer

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

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

But five months later, Davy Kirkwood, an audio engineer and one of the pallbearers at Dio’s funeral, also died.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 13, 2024

The couple watched as Valenzuela’s family made their way inside the cathedral, followed by the pallbearers who helped move the pitcher’s casket adorned with white roses inside the building.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 6, 2024

After the pastor finally finished talking, the pallbearers lowered the wooden coffin with my gran in it into the huge rectangle in the ground.

From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce