"She would a liked a nice funeral, though. She always wanted one."
Tom looked sideways at them. "County?" he asked.
"Yeah," Pa shook his head quickly, as though to get back to some reality. "We didn’ have enough. We couldn’ of done it."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 20. Ma Joad always knew that Granma wanted a nice funeral. But as Pa sadly points out the Joads didn’t have enough money for embalming, a coffin, preacher and plot in a graveyard. So she is buried in a pauper’s grave.