When Aretha Franklin is laid to rest Friday, she’ll travel as she did all her life: with grace and glamour. The hearse that will carry her is a regal, pearly-white 1940 Cadillac LaSalle with sparkling ...

Finding the unusual opportunity to view several vehicles that all have the same meaningful calling? Elegant automobiles that famously share an incredibly important purpose, a purpose that is instantly ...

LIVONIA — Rebecca Markonni's ride is unlike anything else you'll see on the streets of metro Detroit. Her 1940s Buick hearse, affectionately called Bram as a nod to the author of "Dracula," Bram ...

EAST ROCHESTER, Ohio (AP) - Ted Hawk has dealt with death more than the average person. He’s buried his parents and five siblings in the family cemetery - Hawk & Sanor Cemetery - that sits just up the ...

This was not the very first motorized hearse ever produced, though at the time, most hearses were still horse-driven carriages. Undertakers were eager to make the switch to motorized hearses, though, ...

GRANVILLE, Iowa -- A hearse is a hearse. Unless of course it's a 1958 Cadillac Superior Landaulet funeral coach restored to its original condition, complete with mossy green mohair velour seats and ...

With tall, Amish-made wheels, the black hearse sits high, with ornately carved posts supporting glass panels around where the casket is held. Black curtains draped behind the glass panels frame ...

For David Girdner, owner of Girdner Funeral Home, hearses are part of the business. But Girdner made acquiring a 1918 model hearse his business when its owner decided to sell it. Now on display inside ...

A 1938 Packard is just one of the many funerary artifacts that Bill Peoples collects at Peoples Mortuary Museum in Marietta. Bill Peoples is not your average vintage car collector. Sure, he’s got ...

They're not much different. They stand by their gleaming rides and talk engines, and door skins, and complain about how ``rust-free'' can mean different things depending on what side of the classified ...

As soon as Lloyd Mandel spotted the 1930s style custom Prinzing hearse at a National Funeral Directors Association convention in Chicago in 2019, the owner of Northbrook-based Mitzvah Memorial ...