'He Broke Boundaries With His Mind': Public Pays Tribute At Stephen Hawking's Funeral
About 500 guests honored the physicist at Saturday's private service in Cambridge, his intellectual home for half a century. The procession was met by admirers who lined the streets to share memories.
When the hearse carrying the body of Professor Stephen Hawking arrived at the university church of St. Mary the Great in Cambridge, the bell rang 76 times â to mark each year of the renowned physicist's life.
His coffin was draped with white flowers â lilies for the universe, roses for the polar star. Six pallbearers carried the coffin from Gonville & Caius College, where Hawking was a fellow for more than 50 years.
Hawking's family invited around 500 guests for the private, read Ecclesiastes 3.1-11.
