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In latest unusual wake in Puerto Rico, woman propped up in chair wearing her old wedding gown

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    The body of Georgina Chervony Lloren, who died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 80, is propped up in a rocking chair during her wake in a funeral home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, May 26, 2014. Miriam Chervony, daughter of Georgina, explained that her mother had asked her family that in the case of her death, she wanted her funeral to be in her favorite rocking chair and in her wedding gown from her second marriage 32 years ago. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (The Associated Press)

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    The body of Georgina Chervony Lloren, who died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 80, is propped up in a rocking chair during her wake in a funeral home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Monday, May 26, 2014. Miriam Chervony, daughter of Georgina, explained that her mother had asked her family that in the case of her death, she wanted her funeral to be in her favorite rocking chair and in her wedding gown from her second marriage 32 year ago. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (The Associated Press)

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    Dolores Lamboy, left, the daughter of Georgina Chervony who died of natural causes on Sunday at the age of 80, touches the hand of her mother whose body was propped up in a rocking chair in a funeral home in San Juan, Puerto Rico, Friday, Jan. 31, 2014. The daughter of Georgina, explained that her mother had asked her family that in the case of her death, she wanted her funeral to be in her favorite rocking chair and in her wedding gown from her second marriage 32 year ago. (AP Photo/Ricardo Arduengo) (The Associated Press)

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – An 80-year-old Puerto Rican woman has been memorialized at her wake sitting in her favorite rocking chair and wearing her old wedding gown.

At a San Juan funeral home, the body of Georgina Chervony Lloren was propped up in her red-cushioned rocking chair Monday and wearing the gown from her second marriage 32 years ago. She was surrounded by plants and flowers.

Her daughter, Miriam Chervony, said her mother specified that this was how she imagined her wake. She died Sunday.

The wake was held at Marin Funeral Home, which is well-known for putting on unusual, thematic wakes. At one wake, a slain boxer was memorialized standing in a makeshift boxing ring. At another, the deceased was propped up on his motorcycle.