Why did the whole town go to Emilys funeral in A Rose for Emily?

Faulkner explains this in the first paragraph:

WHEN Miss Emily Grierson died, our whole town went to her funeral: the

men through a sort of respectful affection for a fallen monument, the

women mostly out of curiOSity to see the inside of her house, which no

one save an old man-servant--a combined gardener and cook--had seen

in at least ten years.