History of the Hearse Wednesday

Wednesday started out being a 1987 Fleetwood model manufactured on a commercial frame. Immediately out of the Cadillac factory she was shipped to the Sayers & Scovill (S & S)*** plant in Ohio for conversion into a hearse. An identification plate on the driver's door states her "birthdate" as 10 February 1987 as a "Victoria" funeral coach model for the Dale E. Ranck Funeral Service, Inc. in Milton, Pennsylvania.

Serving for four years with her original owner, she briefly came out of service in 1991 due to being replaced with a newer model. Her next tour of duty started almost immediately in Mount Pleasant Mills, Pennsylvania with the George P. Garman Funeral Home and continued uninterrupted through November 2003. After 16 years of faithful service she would rest only less than a week when her beauty caught my eye on the CW Coach lot in Cincinnati, Ohio.

When purchased on 26 November 2003, she had 78,700 original miles indicated on her speedometer. The only modifications/improvements made to date has been the installation of a Blaupunkt cd player radio and the placement of a Casket Royale Devon II model 20 gauge metal casket in her cargo bay. Knowing that most hearse drivers name their beloved vehicles....it seemed only appropriate to give her the name Wednesday after a favorite childhood tv star of mine, Lisa Loring. Wednesday is used as a daily driver to my place of employment.

***Sayers & Scovill is the oldest coach builders still in existence. They started making the horse drawn coaches in 1876 and are now carried under the Accucorp name.