committal service

Committal services will be private.

She declined to attend the committal service in Washington when Noyes took Polly's ashes down.

The committal service, presided over by Bishop James E. Freeman, was on November 2.

Phase one includes an entrance, roadways within the section, a public information center with restrooms, and two solar-powered shelters for committal services during inclement weather.

"The trend is for a formal committal service," said Darla Norrish, funeral director at the Tucson cemetery.

At the conclusion of the committal service, the chaplain intoned, "Grant her eternal rest, O Lord, and let Your perpetual light shine upon her.

As many as could crowded around the canopied plot in front of the receiving tomb, where the coffin, with "George Herman Ruth" on its silver nameplate, was placed for the brief committal service.

A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing (sometimes referred to as a visitation), a funeral service in a place of worship or the funeral home chapel and a graveside committal service.

The veiled urn containing her ashes rested on the high altar, and afterward there was a private committal service in the columbarium, where her urn was placed next to Teacher's and Polly's.

She tried to listen to the words of the committal service, but could hear nothing, nothing but the sudden click and hum of the blue curtains sliding apart and the coffin starting to move slowly through them.

After the funeral the coffin will then be taken to St George's Chapel, Windsor, for a private Committal Service where it will be interred beside King George VI in the King George VI Memorial Chapel.