Definition of pallbearer
: a person who helps to carry the coffin at a funeral; also : a member of the escort or honor guard of the coffin who does not actually help to carry it
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Robinson was one of the pallbearers at Bartow's funeral.
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Bill Shanker, one of the pallbearers at the funeral asked him.
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Kerrigan's oldest child, also named Frank, had visited the home of a family friend, a pallbearer at the funeral.
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After the 90-minute service, those grandchildren served as pallbearers, escorting the casket outside as Billy Graham, gripping a walker, followed.
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With his children among the pallbearers, Best's casket was wheeled toward the door and draped in an American flag.
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At the funeral Burbridge’s casket was escorted by six pallbearers in uniform and a full honor guard.
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One was her close friend and rumored boyfriend Jonathan Novak, an art dealer and pallbearer at her funeral.
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When the funeral party arrived at the cemetery, Dreher saw that the pallbearers, too, had removed their shoes.
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