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  State funeral - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A state funeral consists of a military procession using a gun carriage from the private resting chapel to Westminster Hall, where the body usually lies in state for three days.
The distinction between a state funeral and a ceremonial funeral is that in a state funeral, the gun carriage bearing the coffin is drawn by sailors from the Royal Navy rather than horses.
A ceremonial funeral procession in a caisson (drawn by six horses of the same color, three riders and a section chief mounted on a separate horse from the Old Guard Caisson Platoon) is a traditional component of a state funeral observance.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_funeral   (2073 words)

  
 Death and state funeral of Ronald Reagan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A state funeral was conducted at the Washington National Cathedral on June 11, 2004 (which President George W. Bush declared a national day of mourning by proclamation).
The state funeral was executed by the Military District of Washington (MDW).
During the funeral services, each time Nancy Reagan appeared in public, she was escorted by Army Major General Galen B. Jackman, commanding general of the Military District of Washington (CG/MDW) at that time.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_funeral_of_Ronald_Reagan   (2430 words)

  
 SUBCHAPTER 3
Thereafter, the licensed funeral director shall be physically present at the beginning of the arrangement conference and available for consultation during the arrangement conference upon request by the funeral director apprentice.
funeral establishment, with common ownership, shall be exempt from maintaining a preparation room provided it is located within 60 miles of the main establishment and can be practically served by the main establishment.
The apprenticeship for licensing as a funeral director and embalmer may be served at the same time at a funeral service establishment nothing shall prohibit an apprenticeship in embalming from being served at a commercial embalming establishment.
www.state.ok.us /~embalm/rules/subchptr3-2.htm   (5890 words)

  
 Ronald Reagan: A Tribute -- State Funerals - US Department of State
A state funeral for Ronald Reagan, the 40th U.S. president, is scheduled in Washington, DC for June 11, the first presidential state funeral in more than three decades.
According to U.S. law, former presidents, presidents-elect, and presidents are entitled to state funerals with the formal honor of lying in state in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol, the seat of the Congress.
A ceremonial funeral procession, composed of National Guard, active-duty, academy and reserve personnel that represent the five branches of the armed forces, is a traditional component of a state funeral observance.
usinfo.state.gov /is/the_presidency/Ronald_Reagan_A_Tribute/reagan_state_funerals.html   (794 words)

  
 469: Board of Funeral Service
State law requires that the board determine that an individual engaged in funeral service or directing meets certain standards pertaining to general qualifications, education, and testing.
State law also allows the board to assess monetary penalties against those funeral establishments found to be guilty of a violation.
Although monetary penalty ranges are provided for in state law, the board has not developed a penalty matrix that states the amount of monetary penalty that should be assessed for each violation, based on the type and severity of the violation or whether it was an initial or recurring offense.
www.peer.state.ms.us /469.html   (2375 words)

  
 Georgia State Board of Funeral Service   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Six of the members are licensed and practicing funeral directors and embalmers and one member is a consumer member who has no connection with the funeral service industry.
The Board is authorized to prescribe a standard of proficiency as to the qualifications and fitness of embalmers and funeral directors, to revoke or suspend licenses for any violation of this law, to adopt rules and regulations and to set standards of sanitation to be observed in the embalming or cremation of dead human bodies.
Any person desiring to engage in the practice of embalming or in the business or practice of funeral directing or operating a funeral establishment must first meet the requirements of the law and rules and be licensed by the Board.
www.sos.state.ga.us /plb/funeral   (199 words)

  
 OLR - Funeral Practitioners
All Funeral Attendants shall work under the direct and personal supervision and legal responsibility of a licensed Practitioner who is actively associated with a funeral establishment.
All funeral establishments and branches must be operated by a person or persons holding a funeral director's licenses, which was initially issued before January 1, 1989, or a practitioner of funeral service license.
The State of Maine, its agencies, officers and employees do not warrant the accuracy, reliability, completeness or timeliness of any information on the Maine State Legislature's web site and may not be held liable for any losses caused by any person's reliance on the information available on this web site.
www.state.me.us /pfr/olr/categories/cat19.htm   (2166 words)

  
 Funeral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Miller noted that all Iowa funeral homes were alerted last February that the State and FTC would be mounting an "effort to check for compliance with the rule" in Iowa.
Baker said four of the six Iowa funeral homes notified have chosen to participate in the Funeral Rule Offenders Program, and two have not notified the FTC of their decision.
It also requires funeral homes to give consumers itemized lists of the goods and services they have selected, so that they can be sure to pay only for items they've chosen or that state law requires.
www.state.ia.us /government/ag/funeral.htm   (1047 words)

  
 State funeral is bound by rules and tradition - baltimoresun.com
State funeral is bound by rules and tradition
The rules for a state funeral and how they are implemented are patterned on what has gone before.
President John F. Kennedy's funeral in 1963 was modeled after Abraham Lincoln's, as requested by Jacqueline Kennedy in her first public statement after her husband's assassination.
www.baltimoresun.com /news/nationworld/bal-te.funeral07jun07,0,3027616.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines   (627 words)

  
 CNN.com - Reagan state funeral prepared - Jun 11, 2004
The funeral, in Washington's soaring National Cathedral, is expected to draw about two dozen world leaders past and present, the U.S. political establishment, key figures in the Reagan administration, family and friends.
The state funeral will begin with a formal military procession from the Capitol, where the body of the nation's 40th president has lain in state in the Rotunda since Wednesday night.
Reagan's state funeral will be the first such ceremony since the service for President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1973.
www.cnn.com /2004/ALLPOLITICS/06/11/reagan.main/index.html   (987 words)

  
 Ursula's Not So Secret History: State Funerals
TONY Blair is backing a controversial plan to provide a state funeral for one of the Labour Party's most reviled enemies of recent decades: Margaret Thatcher.
Past state funerals have involved a lying-in-state for several days in Westminster Hall, but it is believed that the plans for Thatcher favour a ceremonial route leading directly to a service at Westminster Abbey.
Planning for Churchill's funeral carried on for over a decade after he suffered a heart attack in 1953 and the Queen made it known she would like his contribution recognised in this in the proper fashion when he died.
www.barzey.com /archives/2006/06/state_funerals.html   (615 words)

  
 State Funeral Steeped In Tradition, Former Head Of State's Funeral A Structured, Yet Unique Event - CBS News
Main funeral procession along Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. Casket transfer from horse-drawn caisson to hearse at the intersection of 16th Street and Constitution Avenue in Washington, D.C. Funeral service in Washington, D.C. (public opportunity for viewing and mourning).
A state funeral was also conducted for the Vietnam Unknown in 1984.
During a state funeral, the salute is fired with five-second intervals between rounds.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/06/07/national/main621511.shtml   (1222 words)

  
 Rules & Regulations - Arkansas Prepaid Funeral Benefits Law
An assignment of an insurance policy or annuity or the proceeds thereof to a funeral home or the designation of a funeral home as beneficiary as described herein is not a prepaid funeral benefits contract.
"Trustee" means a state or national bank or savings and loan association in this state, or, in the reasonable discretion of the Insurance Commissioner upon such terms and conditions as he may require, a "securities brokerage firm" licensed and in good standing with appropriate state and federal regulatory authorities.
The Auditor of State shall, upon proper voucher from the Insurance Commissioner, issue his warrant on the Treasurer of State in payment of all salaries and other expenses incurred by the Division of Prepaid Funeral Benefits of the State Insurance Department in the administration of this chapter.
www.state.ar.us /fdemb/rules/rules_prepaid_p1.html   (789 words)

  
 BBC News | UK | Ceremonial rather than state funeral
There would have been no question in her mind that her passing should be marked by a ceremonial funeral rather than a state one.
State funerals are reserved for monarchs and although the Queen Mother was queen, it was her husband George VI who held the throne.
Even Princess Diana's funeral, which was relayed by loud speaker to thousands of members of the public outside, was on a much smaller scale.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/1906658.stm   (490 words)

  
 Scotsman.com News - Blair plans state funeral for Thatcher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
A state funeral is one at which sailors draw the gun carriage (dating from the horses bolting at Queen Victoria's obsequies); at a ceremonial funeral it is drawn by horses.
Attlee tried to off-set the deplorable state but Churchill and his pre-Victorian mentality believed that the British worker should be kept in Third World condition and that the middle classes should for ever live on hand-outs and be allowed to wave the Union Jack at State Funerals.
She seem to be hated by many, but I believe she deserves a state funeral as a matter of respect for a former British leader who I believe made some important dents in English politics.
news.scotsman.com /index.cfm?id=824002006   (6974 words)

  
 USATODAY.com - Supporters want state funeral for Zhao   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
BEIJING — The Chinese government is facing pressure from supporters of the late leader Zhao Ziyang to honor the deposed Communist Party chief with the state funeral honors bestowed on leaders Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
A funeral committee set up by party liberals, academics and political dissidents has declared it will pursue a state funeral for Zhao that would include a memorial service on Tiananmen Square on Sunday, with flags flown at half-staff there and at the Zhongnanhai leadership compound, just west of the square.
The government has not announced funeral plans for Zhao, who died in a Beijing hospital Jan. 17 at age 85.
www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-24-zhao-state-funeral_x.htm?csp=34   (610 words)

  
 State Funeral For Train Victims - CBS News
Crowds of several hundred people gathered before giant-screen TVs broadcasting the funeral in a cobblestone courtyard outside the cathedral, in a Royal Palace garden and in the Puerta del Sol — a bustling plaza where one of several makeshift memorials to the victims sprang up the day after the bombings.
It was the first state funeral for people outside the royal family in the history of Spain's new democracy, restored after longtime dictator Gen. Francisco Franco died in 1975.
The last state funeral was held in 2000 for the king's mother, Mercedes de Borbon y Orleans.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2004/03/25/world/main608724.shtml   (1175 words)

  
 Boston.com / News / Nation / Reagan to Receive State Funeral; America Mourns   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Ronald Reagan will lie in state in California and in Washington, D.C., so that his last wish can be fulfilled -- that ordinary Americans be given the chance to pay their final respects to him "if they want," the late president's chief of staff said on Sunday.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Ronald Reagan will lie in state in California and in Washington, D.C., so that his last wish can be fulfilled -- that ordinary Americans be given the chance to pay their final respects to him "if they want," the late president's chief of staff said on Sunday.
In a scene reminiscent of the funeral of President John F. Kennedy, the casket will be brought to the Capitol Building by a horse-drawn caisson followed by a single drummer.
www.boston.com /news/nation/articles/2004/06/06/reagan_to_receive_state_funeral_america_mourns?mode=PF   (941 words)

  
 Tri-State Funeral Service and Tri-State Funeral Services, Inc. - Home
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 Boston.com / News / World / Europe / Spain royal family weeps at state funeral   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
King Carlos and Queen Sofia went row by row on Wednesday, clasping the hands of the bereaved or kissing them on the cheeks at an emotional state funeral for the 190 people killed in Spain's worst terrorist attack.
It was the first state funeral for people outside the royal family in the history of Spain's new democracy, restored after dictator Gen. Francisco Franco died in 1975.
The last state funeral was held in 2000 for the king's mother.
www.boston.com /news/world/europe/articles/2004/03/24/world_leaders_join_spain_at_state_funeral?mode=PF   (979 words)

  
 Public Viewing to Last 34 Hours (washingtonpost.com)
Hundreds of officials and volunteers were focused yesterday on the logistics of the city's first presidential funeral in 31 years, from the protocol for seating heads of state inside the cathedral to plans to provide water and medical assistance to those waiting outside the U.S. Capitol to view Reagan's coffin.
By law, every former president is entitled to a state funeral, and details of such events are described in the military's State Funeral Plan.
Handling the logistics for a state funeral is an enormous task, said Selwa "Lucky" Roosevelt, chief of protocol under Reagan.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A23394-2004Jun7.html   (1461 words)

  
 BPOA: Mission Statement
The State Board of Funeral Directors regulates the licensure and practice of funeral directors in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
The Board’s functions include the formulation of necessary rules and regulations for the proper conduct of the business or profession of funeral directing in order to safeguard the interests of the public and the standards of the profession.
Citation: Funeral Director Law, 63 P.S. Regulations of the State Board of Funeral Directors, 49 PA. CODE ยงยง 13.1 - 13.251.
www.dos.state.pa.us /bpoa/cwp/view.asp?a=1104&q=433975   (123 words)

  
 State Laws for Funeral Service Providers
You can search for pending legislation on the funeral service industry, but as of this posting we are not able to locate the full text of existing law.
A comprehensive directory of funeral rules and laws for the state covers everything from fees and licensing to preparation of dead bodies to pre need funeral planning requirements.
The state of Ohio has a comprehensive site for the state board of embalmers and funeral directors, including meeting minutes since 1996.
www.funeralplan.com /funeralplan/consumer/statelaw.html   (1034 words)

  
 SignOnSanDiego.com > News > Nation -- State funerals bound by rules, history, judgment
President Kennedy's funeral in 1963 was modeled after Abraham Lincoln's, as requested by Jacqueline Kennedy in her first public statement after her husband's assassination.
On the matter of seating arrangements for the funeral, the presidential party is followed by chiefs of state, arranged alphabetically by the English spelling of their countries.
The first presidential state funeral was for William Henry Harrison.
signonsandiego.com /news/nation/20040606-0926-reagan-statefunerals.html   (890 words)

  
 State funeral for WWI veteran - National - smh.com.au
Mr Allan, a former sailor who died at the age of 106 in a Melbourne nursing home on Monday night, was the last surviving veteran to see active service in both world wars.
The funeral will be held on Tuesday at 1pm (AEST) at Naval training base HMAS Cerberus at Crib Point on Western Port Bay on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula.
A state government spokesman said a 45-minute ceremony would be held in the large chapel at the base, followed by official proceedings.
www.smh.com.au /news/national/state-funeral-for-wwi-veteran/2005/10/23/1130005994858.html   (314 words)

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