State funeral for Amazing Grace celebrates Socred 'first lady' McCarthy

Grace McCarthy had a lot of flair. So it’s fitting that her funeral Wednesday was every bit as dramatic as the woman it was honouring.
“I have never been to one like it,” said business leader Jim Pattison. “It was very special.”
Indeed. McCarthy was given a state funeral, a nearly two-hour affair that was quite religious but brimming with secular stories from the life of one of B.C.’s legendary politicians.
McCarthy’s casket entered Christ Church Cathedr