funeralizing

So long had Dyke Garrett traveled up and down the valley comforting the sick, praying with the dying, funeralizing the dead.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

The present generation do not speak of the funeralizing.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

The funeralizing of a departed kinsman or friend was published from the pulpit.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

But at meeting, unlike at speaking, they give vent to their emotions, especially if the occasion be that of funeralizing the dead.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

The solemn funeralizing with its simple beauty is almost a thing of the past in the southern mountains.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

So the custom of funeralizing the dead long after burial grew from a necessity.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945

After a general handshaking and repeated farewells and the avowed hope of meeting again come the second Sunday in May next year, the funeralizing ended.

Blue Ridge Country Jean Thomas 1945