San Juan, Puerto Rico: An 80-year-old Puerto Rican woman has been memorialised at her wake sitting in her favourite rocking chair and wearing her old wedding gown.
At a San Juan funeral home, the body of Georgina Chervony Lloren was propped up in her red-cushioned rocking chair on Monday and wearing the gown from her second marriage 32 years ago. She was surrounded by plants and flowers.
Her daughter, Miriam Chervony, said her mother specified that this was how she imagined her wake. She died on Sunday.
The wake was held at Marin Funeral Home, which is well-known for putting on unusual, thematic wakes. At one wake, a slain boxer was memorialised standing in a makeshift boxing ring. At another, the deceased was propped up on his motorcycle.
