In life and in death, Margo Vaughan was different. When she is taken to her final resting place today (Tuesday) it will not be in a black hearse but a Salford Van Hire vehicle.
And she left family another instruction to be followed after she died - "no undertakers, no fridges". So she has been kept in a casket at her home in Bury since her death last week.
Today, the van and mourners will travel to Cumbria where she will be laid to rest on a private estate to the sound of thirteen pieces of music including The Dambusters overture from the famous 1955 British war film, composed by Eric Coates, and Number One Song in Heaven by Sparks. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...
just click here to give it a go. Her daughter, Persis, 30, said: "Mum was super animated, adventurous and a massive laugh. [She had a] wicked, often dark sense of humour - hence buying the Victorian style white nightie for her to wear in her casket so she can ‘come back’ as a ghost. "She spent some of her youth as a hippie then discovered punk.
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