With tears and smiles, Philadelphia bids farewell to the Geator
It was perhaps the only funeral at which “Disco Inferno” was piped through speakers as people waited their turn to go inside and pay their respects, but that seemed fitting.
Draped in the Philadelphia flag, Jerry Blavat's casket is carried out towards the front of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul to be loaded into the hearse. Blavat died Jan. 20.Read moreTyger Williams / Staff Photographer
