Hundreds celebrate Lisa Marie Presley's life at Graceland ceremony

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Updated on: January 22, 2023 / 7:45 PM / CBS/AP

Lisa Marie Presley memorial held astatine Graceland

Mourners accumulate astatine Graceland for a last farewell to Lisa Marie Presley 01:46

Hundreds of quality beings amassed connected the beforehand plot of Graceland connected a grey, chilly Sunday greeting successful Memphis to mourn the demise and bash not hide the beingness of Lisa Marie Presley, who died successful beforehand this month.

Some mourners held works beingness arsenic they waited for the supplier to commencement beneath the gangly trees astatine the plot of Graceland, the location wherever Lisa Marie lived arsenic a toddler unneurotic with her father, Elvis Presley. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a depository and traveller enchantment that masses of thousands of fanatics sojourn each yr to rejoice the lifestyles and tune of Elvis, who died successful 1977.

The assets successful southbound Memphis changed into a spot of unhappiness and somber reminiscences connected Sunday. Presley, a 54-year-old singer-songwriter devoted to her father's legacy, died Jan. 12, hours aft being hospitalized for a objective emergency.

The supplier started with the singing of "Amazing Grace" done Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir.

"We would similar to circumstantial our heartfelt gratitude for the love, compassion and assistance you've got shown our ain household each done this pugnacious time," said a connection from the Presley household written connected the exertion for the service. "We volition ever beryllium grateful."

Lisa Marie Presley's mom, Priscilla Presley, analyse a poem written done her granddaughter known arsenic "Old Soul," accordant with CBS Memphis subordinate WREG.

"The aged psyche successful 1968, she entered our planetary — calved sturdy nevertheless was sensitive, filled with life," the poem read. "She perpetually knew she would not beryllium close present excessively long. Childhood passes by means of successful the glimpse of a inexperienced eye. She past grew a ellipse of relatives of her own. She past mislaid her 2nd baby, an angel of suspicion, she knew it became adjacent the stop."

"Now she is location wherever she ever belonged, nevertheless my coronary bosom is missing her love," the poem persisted. "She knew that I cherished her. I fearfulness I'll ne'er interaction her, nevertheless the aged psyche is ever with me. She does not travel above."

Lisa Marie Presley's eldest daughter, histrion Riley Keough, did nary longer pass but her husband, Ben Smith-Peterson, work a announcement connected her behalf.

"Thank you for being my ma connected this lifestyles," Keough's connection began. "I'm without extremity grateful."

"I support successful caput however it felt to beryllium loved by the maximum loving ma I've ever recognized," the eulogy persevered. "How unafraid it felt to beryllium for your fingers. I support successful caput that feeling arsenic a babe and I see it 2 weeks agone successful your sofa."

"I tendency I tin emotion my girl the mode you loved me, the mode you loved my member and my sisters,' Keough added.

Former Memphis Mayor A C Wharton and Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, person been astir of the audio strategy who paid tribute to Presley, adjacent arsenic singers Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose venerated the past owed instrumentalist with performances of the songs "Rest" and "November Rain."

Following the service, mourners made a procession done Graceland's Meditation Garden, wherein Presley became laid to rest.

Lisa Marie Presley's son, Benjamin Keough, who died by utilizing termination successful 2020, is likewise buried astatine Graceland.

First published connected January 22, 2023 / 1:12 PM

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