She was accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
But Placido Rizzotto's state funeral is of course much more than just a family affair.
How did he think members of Mafia families still in Corleone would regard the state funeral?
Australia, plunged into grief despite its carping, talked of holding a state funeral for him.
Lady Thatcher was accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
She has been accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
He had preferred an intimate burial at the small brandy-making town to a state funeral in Paris.
The paper also launches a campaign for "Britain's greatest peacetime prime minister" to be given a state funeral.
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Reagan's state funeral will be the first such ceremony since the service for President Lyndon Baines Johnson in 1973.
Mr. Singh would be given a state funeral, the Punjab state government said.
He wanted to be buried within two weeks of his death and he did not want a state funeral.
The former prime minister has been accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
When she died, the Last Post was sounded at Government House in Adelaide, and she was given a state funeral.
Congress party vice-president Rahul Gandhi also attended the state funeral in Bhikhiwind, a town just a few miles from the Pakistan border.
The mourning in Brazil, capped by a state funeral, lasted three days.
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His state funeral will be held there on Friday morning, officials said.
The state funeral and burial will be preceded by five days of observances beginning Monday with a private family service at the library.
Thousands of people have been attending the state funeral in Addis Ababa of Ethiopia's long-serving Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, who died last month.
Thousand of Israelis filed through the Knesset building Thursday to view the body of Zeevi, who will be buried in a state funeral.
While some supporters want her to be given a state funeral, others have questioned whether she merits a send-off on par with that of Diana's.
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The 41-year-old was given a state funeral in Dundalk, which was attended by thousands of people, including leading politicians from both sides of the Irish border.
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The prime minister who led the UK through most of World War II was, like Wellington, Lord Palmerston and William Gladstone, accorded a full state funeral.
The Daily Mail is not so easily brushed aside though, and continues to urge its 1 million-plus readers to send off coupons for a full state funeral.
Foreign leaders like Bolivian President Evo Morales accompanied the procession, broadcast live on state television, toward a military academy, where the body will await Friday's state funeral.
On March 17th he had his wish, or most of it: a state funeral for all the poilus at Les Invalides, and then a simple family burial.
The most controversial issue in Chile at the moment is whether Augusto Pinochet, when he does die, will receive the state funeral normally given to former presidents.
Lady Thatcher, who died at the age of 87 on 8 April, has been accorded a ceremonial funeral with military honours, one step down from a state funeral.
Mr Ponticelli, who lived with his daughter in a southern suburb of Paris, had initially refused a government offer of a state funeral, the AFP news agency reported.
He is also an ordained Episcopal priest, and he presided at the state funeral for former President Ronald Reagan in June, shortly after being nominated to the U.N. post.
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