Fiction - funeral on a Sunday in 1940s

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So, I read the book “Manhattan Beach”. I don’t really recommend it, and Catholicism was a fairly big part of it. Anyway, one of the characters has a Catholic funeral on a Sunday (in the 1940s). That seemed 1000% impossible, and I would have thought that someone in the editorial process would have caught it.
I just wanted to double-check though, there would never ever be a funeral on a Sunday (especially pre-Vatican II). A nice touch was that the author made a point of saying how drunk all the Irish people were (at the Sunday morning funeral).
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Don’t know about funerals, but I did find out in passing that a lot of weddings (not necessarily Catholic) were done on weekdays back during WW2 times. Like, Tuesday, or whatever. I always took it for granted that Saturday was the best day for a wedding, to give people time for travel and celebration and not have to be at work the next day— but obviously, that’s a more recent development, historically speaking.

If you have access to an online newspaper database, it would be really easy to check up on a major newspaper in, say, 1942, and look at the obituaries, and see how many funerals were scheduled for Sunday in a given period of time, and then see if you can figure out how many of those Sunday funerals were Catholic funerals.
 
I guess it just seems highly unlikely since the parish would be holding Sunday Mass.
 
Yes, regarding weddings, I was reading a local woman’s published diary, and she got married during the WWII era. She got married on a Thursday morning, and I think she said there were two other weddings that morning. A far cry from nowadays!
 
Well, clever Paul, since Vatican II changed a lot of things, like weddings during Lent, maybe other things were loosened up. That’s why I’m asking.😉
 
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