A Puerto Rican funeral home has carried on a tradition of some unusual wakes as an 80-year-old woman was memorialised sitting in her favourite rocking chair and wearing her old wedding gown.

The body of Georgina Chervony Lloren was propped up in her red-cushioned rocking chair at the San Juan funeral home, wearing the gown from her second marriage 32 years ago, surrounded by plants and flowers.

Marin Funeral Home is well-known for putting on thematic wakes, including a murdered boxer standing in a makeshift boxing ring, and another with the deceased propped up on his motorcycle.

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