Post by cenydd on Sept 5, 2013 12:47:08 GMT
A retired JCB driver was granted his last wish when he was driven to his own funeral in one of the giant diggers he drove for 40 years.
Billy Jones, 83, told his family that he wanted to make his final journey on a yellow digger like the ones he had driven for 40 years before he retired.
The grandfather’s coffin was gently lowered into the bucket of the JCB for the moving journey to his funeral service.
Mourners clapped and cheered as the coffin arrived at Coychurch Crematorium in Bridgend on the JCB.
His proud daughter Trudi-Ann, 48, said: “He talked about his own funeral and this was what he wanted.
"When dad died, we told the funeral director about dad’s wishes and they said we could do it.”
Billy Jones, 83, told his family that he wanted to make his final journey on a yellow digger like the ones he had driven for 40 years before he retired.
The grandfather’s coffin was gently lowered into the bucket of the JCB for the moving journey to his funeral service.
Mourners clapped and cheered as the coffin arrived at Coychurch Crematorium in Bridgend on the JCB.
His proud daughter Trudi-Ann, 48, said: “He talked about his own funeral and this was what he wanted.
"When dad died, we told the funeral director about dad’s wishes and they said we could do it.”
www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/jcb-driver-taken-funeral-giant-5830809
Good for his family, the funeral directors, and so on, for allowing him to be sent of in the way that he wished! It's certainly different!