To the Editor:

Having just returned from a funeral service for a dear family member I felt compelled to write this letter!

The service was held at St. Jerome's on E. Rocks Road and the burial was at St. John's on Richards Avenue. I rode in a relatives car about six back from the hearse and the limo and can't believe the number of cars that cut into the procession, and not one at a time, but two or three one after the other! Where is the common courtesy that we once had to wait for a funeral procession to pass before continuing on our way? Is the wait of a few minutes really that drastic that we have to show such rudeness and disrespect for the deceased.

At the same time I have to wonder what happened to the days when a couple of police officers would jump ahead of the procession to make sure people did not behave in such a rude manner. I believe the Norwalk police now have a motorcycle unit that could easily perform the task by leapfrogging from one intersection to the next, or is this a service no longer provided by the department?

Bayden "Bud" Taylor