here's the info from the story in the Boonville newspaper
In a fitting tribute, a family fishing boat was modified to carry Len Reuter from St. Joseph Church in Pilot Grove to the Catholic cemetery for his burial Friday, May 4. ?I just had this idea he needed to go to the cemetery in something besides a hearse,? said his son Earl. ?That fishing boat was him.? The pallbearers walked beside the boat for the journey out of town and down a gravel road to the cemetery on the outskirts of town.