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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Heavy objects like caskets or the ark of the covenant are sometimes carried on poles. 100+ ghits:
I was a pole bearer today at the funeral of a woman I have never met.
www.bermyadventures.com/rant/2003/09/index.html
She’d had a good innings though, and her funeral was a well-attended family affair. ... I had the honour of being a pole bearer …
www.produxion.net/blog/2007/05/03/hiatus/
One such detail was for the funeral of a 19-year-old sailor named Frank Jaccarusso. I was a pole bearer…
www.citybelt.org/citybelt/2006/08/i_aint_marching.html
I remember I was a pole bearer at the funeral, and after the casket had been loaded into the hearse, we pole bearers climbed into an SUV …
www.xanga.com/countrysinger19
I was also a pole bearer. All the grandsons were pole bearers for the funeral…
paulblock.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_archive.html
US Department of Defense – Photo Essay
The pole bearer and the Presidential flag carrier stood still … former President Ronald Wilson Reagan’s State Funeral, June 11, 2004.
www.defenselink.mil/home/photoessays/20 … 204a5.html
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