Show funeral made occasion for joyous ceremonies veronica kantor a wealthy old peasant woman of in the baeska had her wedding celebrate by scores of guests N who nho ho attended lier ter funeral says the new york times As a young oung girl giri she vowed never to marry and kept it to the day of her death at age of eighty two years in her will vili she ordered that she should not be buried with funeral services but with marriage rites her instructions were carried out according to serbian herblan wedding customs ter her body was arrayed in a n wedding dress and a crown brown of myrtle leaves horses decked out with white and sliver silver ribbons drew the gayly decorated hearse to the cemetery followed by scores of peasants in their rainbow colored festival garments singing gay wedding songs of love and romance all carried multicolored bouquets after the burial the guests returned to the dead brides former home where music dancing and feasting were kept up until a late hour |