World's 5 People Driving Vehicles In Their Graves
5.
Billy Standley
Billy Standley always told friends and family he'd be buried riding his Harley-Davidson
motorcycle.
Now thanks to his adoring family, his dying wish has been fulfilled.
The Ohio motorhead was spectacularly laid to rest in a Mechanicsburg cemetery on Friday
while seated on the back of his 1967 Electra Glide cruiser thanks to the handiwork of five
embalmers and a metal back brace and straps.
The casket consisted of a 9-by-11 cement septic tank, Plexiglas and wood and steel rods to
reinforce the bottom.
Because of its large size, it also required the purchase of three burial plots, which
were next to his wife, Lorna.
"He was a quirky man," his daughter Dorothy Brown told the paper.
"But when it comes to us kids, he loved us, he raised us well and, of course, we wanted
to help him."
"He'd done right by us all these years, and at least we could see he goes out the way
he wanted to," his son Pete Standley told the Dayton Daily News.
4.
Sandra West
Sandra West died in 1977 and was buried in the front seat of her Ferrari wearing a white
nightgown in San Antonio, Texas West was buried in the front seat of her light
blue 1964 Ferrari 250GT - which would cost $2million if bought today - wearing a white
nightgown 'with the seat slanted comfortably.'
Following the death of her Texas oil tycoon husband, Ike West, in 1968, West received
his $5 million estate and promised it to her brother-in-law Sol West if he granted the
burial request she had written in her will four years earlier, according toMy San Antonio
West and her Italian sports car were flown to San Antonio to be buried next to her late
husband in the historic cemetery which boasts the graves of those who helped shape San Antonio,
according to My San Antonio.
The car carrying West's body was placed in a crate which was then lowered into the ground
by a large crane.
The grave was 19 feet long, 10 feet wide, and nine feet deep, the Houston Chronicle
reports.The large grave was then covered with cement to prevent vandalism and looting.
3.
Lonnie Holloway
One man's funeral is the talk of the town in Saluda.
90-year-old Lonnie Holloway was buried in the front seat of his car along with his most
prized possessions.
Hundreds showed up from all over to see Lonnie Holloway and his 1973 Pontiac Catalina.
"He was a unique individual.
He said when he died, he didn't want to leave his guns here because somebody might take
them and shoot somebody, so he took them with him," said Lonnie's cousin Johnny McCloud.
"I don't like it but he told me a long time ago.
He said 'Sallie Mae, I'm going to be buried in my car.'
I said 'Holloway, don't make me ashamed' and he said 'If that's going to make you ashamed,
you're going to have to be ashamed.'
I hope he made it," said Lonnie's sister Sallie Harris.
After the car was put in the ground, it was covered with a concrete slab to keep the the
guns and the car from being stolen.
2.
George Swanson
In 1994, the ashes of 71-year-old George Swanson are buried (according to Swanson's request)
in the driver's seat of his 1984 white Corvette in Hempfield County, Pennsylvania.
"George wanted to go out in style, and, indeed, now he will," commented Swanson's lawyer in
a report from The Associated Press.
"We agree that this is rather elaborate, but really it's no different than being buried
in a diamond-studded or gold coffin."
According to the AP, Swanson's widow, Caroline, transported her husband's ashes to the cemetery
on the seat of her own white 1993 Corvette.
The ashes were then placed on the driver's seat of his 10-year-old car, which had only
27,000 miles on the odometer.
"George always said he lived a fabulous life, and he went out in a fabulous style," Caroline
Swanson said later.
"You have a lot of people saying they want to take it with them.
He took it with him."
1.
Rose Martin
Rose Martin, 84, of Rhode Island, took up four burial plots when she and her white Chevrolet
Corvair were deposited six feet (and four wheels) under.
"She prearranged with us, and this was her wish.
It was very well known throughout Tiverton that she wanted this," said Robert Ferreira,
a director of the Oliveira Funeral Home in Fall River, Mass.
The widow and mother of three, who died Saturday, drove the flat-looking rear-engine white car
around the town of Tiverton, population 14,000, for 36 years.
"She just loved the car.
She didn't care what it cost to fix the car.
If the car was broken, she wasn't one to ask you how much.
'Just fix it,' " recalled Tiverton Auto Body owner George Murray.
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