On Sunday, Jan. 22, Lisa Marie Presley was laid to relaxation close to her father, Elvis Presley, and son, Benjamin Keough, at Graceland in Memphis, TN. The singer’s memorial service was attended by each well-known faces and scores of mourners who got here to pay their respects and honor Lisa Marie’s life. Among the attendees had been her daughters, Riley Keough and 14-year-old twins Finley and Harper Lockwood; “Elvis” star Austin Butler and his girlfriend, mannequin Kaia Gerber; and Sarah Ferguson.
Lisa Marie died at age 54 on Jan. 12 after paramedics had been referred to as to her dwelling for a doable cardiac arrest, per People. Later that day, her mom, Priscilla Presley, confirmed to People that her daughter had handed away. “It is with a heavy coronary heart that I need to share the devastating information that my lovely daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Presley stated. “She was probably the most passionate sturdy and loving girl I’ve ever recognized. We ask for privateness as we attempt to take care of this profound loss. Thank you for the love and prayers. At this time there will probably be no additional remark.”
Messages of assist got here pouring in from celebrities and followers of Lisa Marie alike, and that very same love for the singer could possibly be felt at her memorial service, which was stay streamed for many who could not attend. Joel Weinshanker, Elvis Presley Enterprises’ managing companion, started the ceremony by reminding attendees that Lisa Marie solely had one request for her funeral: “Don’t make it unhappy.” He added, “Lisa, we are going to attempt to honor your want right this moment.”
Former Memphis Mayor A.C. Wharton additionally stated just a few phrases in honor of how a lot Lisa Marie meant to town. “The metropolis cherished her candy, cherished her tender, and cherished her really,” he stated. “God bless you.”
Meanwhile, the singer–songwriter’s longtime pal Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, spoke on the ceremony as nicely. “I stand right here with nice honor as a result of we referred to as one another ‘sissy,’ and I’ve been with you all for all of your lives actually,” she started. “Sissy, that is for you with affection. My late mother-in-law used to say that nothing [that] might be stated can start to remove the anguish and the ache of those moments, as a result of grief is the value we pay for love. And how proper she was.”
In between the speeches, there have been musical interludes that includes performances by Axl Rose, Alanis Morissette, Billy Corgan, and extra. The musical moments left many within the viewers wiping their eyes, together with Keough, who had her husband, Ben Smith-Petersen, learn a speech she wrote in honor of her mom.
“I hope I can love my daughter the way in which you liked me, the way in which you liked my brother and my sisters. Thank you for giving me power, my coronary heart, my empathy, my braveness, my humorousness, my manners, my mood, my wildness, my tenacity. I’m a product of your coronary heart, my sisters are a product of your coronary heart, my brother is a product of your coronary heart,” he learn, revealing that Lisa Marie was a grandmother earlier than she died.
See images from Presley’s emotional memorial service forward.