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The Corvair was prepared for burial by removing fluids, gas tank, seats, and engine, in accordance with regulations.

Six Tiverton police officers served as pallbearers, lowering the car into a plot at Pocasset Hill Cemetery.

Journalists must often write about funerals and burials − typically for people who are famous (or at least well-known) or who die in remarkable circumstances.

But sometimes, it's the actual burial that is newsworthy. Such was the case of Tiverton's Rose Martin, who was well-known around town for her beloved 1962 Corvair. She loved that car so much that she asked to be buried in it when she died, and the Oliveira Funeral Home in Fall River, Massachusetts, accommodated that request.

Martin bought the white Corvair for $2,500 in 1962 and drov

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