Five men in black suits lifted a small, cherry-wood casket out of the back of a hearse Saturday morning on a fog-covered hill at Colma’s Greenlawn Memorial Park. They carried the casket through ...

Arnold Gold/Register photos: Edward Balfour, vice president, left, and Justin Wessels, president of The Golden Casket in Old Saybrook, show one of their sculpted cherry wood caskets covered in ...

Materials: The caskets are made from locally sourced poplar, cherry, oak and walnut lumber. Despite their simple appearance, each casket consists of more than 300 parts, including upholstery ...

Wearing black dresses, Katerina and Abigail stood stoically at the entrance of the church watching as their family’s cherry wood caskets, draped in white flowers, were placed into three hearses.

In a small, somber ceremony at Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary-St. Stephen Roman Catholic Church, his daughters sobbed and hugged one another as Mondella’s dark wood casket arrived for his funeral.

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Next to each small mahogany casket adorned with pink and white ...