Lisa Marie Presley Laid to Rest at Graceland Near Dad Elvis Presley

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Lisa Marie Presley Laid to Rest astatine Graceland successful Public Funeral

Nearly 2 weeks aft her passing, Lisa Marie Presley has reached her last resting place. 

The singer, the lone kid of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley, was laid to remainder astatine Graceland successful Memphis, Tenn. and honored astatine a nationalist memorial connected Jan. 22. Lisa Marie died connected Jan. 12 aft being rushed to the hospital owed to a imaginable cardiac arrest. She was 54.

Lisa Marie was laid to remainder beside her precocious son, Benjamin Keough, who died by termination at the property of 27 successful July 2020. Their graves are besides located adjacent Elvis'.

Lisa is survived by ma Priscilla Presleywho spoke astatine the memorial—and daughters Riley Keough, 33—whose dada is Danny Keough—and twins Harper and Finley, 14, who she shares with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.

Several of Lisa's personage friends besides attended the memorial, including Austin Butler—who plays the King of Rock and Roll successful the movie Elvis, plus Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan and Guns N' Roses singer Axl Rosewho performed "November Rain" and delivered touching words during the service.

"I consciousness similar I'm expected to beryllium texting her like, close now, saying 'I'm here,' telling her however fantastic everyone is," Axl said successful a speech. "I ne'er successful a cardinal years imagined singing present and particularly nether these circumstances."

Axl added, "Lisa is loved and missed by galore and volition proceed to beryllium loved by each those whose lives she touched."

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Prior to her passing, Lisa Marie followed successful her dad's philharmonic footsteps, releasing her debut album, To Whom It May Concern, successful 2003. She aboriginal released Now What in 2005 and a 3rd album, Storm & Grace, 7 years later. 

Despite being the girl of the King of Rock n' Roll, she was determined to pave her ain way.

"I've ne'er been 1 of those radical that tally around, you know, walking each reddish carpet and going to each opening of each envelope, doing Presley perfumes and singing Elvis screen songs," she said during a 2005 quality connected The Oprah Winfrey Show. "I'm conscionable innately not the benignant of idiosyncratic that wants attraction connected me."

She continued, "This has been my biggest battle, and it's wherefore it took maine truthful agelong to bash a record. I had to truly find however to beryllium good with each of that earlier doing it."

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Aside from her nonrecreational endeavors, Lisa Marie besides reflected connected however motherhood changed her life.

"They request to propulsion maine disconnected of them constantly...I'm brainsick astir them and they cognize it," she told big Oprah Winfrey of her children. "Trying truly hard to beryllium their person arsenic good arsenic beryllium a mother—that's the obstruction you walk, which is important due to the fact that you can't spell excessively overmuch connected 1 broadside oregon the other."

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As Lisa Marie—whose last nationalist appearance was astatine the 2023 Golden Globes conscionable 2 days earlier her death—noted, she's ever wanted to acceptable the modular for her family.

"I'm not idiosyncratic who sits around," she continued. "I'm not blessed unless I'm helping different people. And they ticker maine and they spot that. You person to conscionable beryllium a bully example."

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Fans Honor Lisa Marie Presley astatine Graceland Memorial

Scores of fans flocked to Graceland Jan. 22 for a nationalist memorial for the late Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie. The chap vocalist died Jan. 12 astatine her Los Angeles location astatine property 54.

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Lisa Marie's sedate is seen adjacent to her son Benjamin Keough's. 

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Axl Rose

The Guns N' Roses frontman performs his band's deed ballad "November Rain." He besides gave a code astir his person Lisa Marie.

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Priscilla Presley

Lisa Marie's parent speaks astatine the event, speechmaking a enactment 1 of her granddaughters penned for her mom.

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Ben Smith-Peterson

The hubby of Lisa Marie's daughter Riley Keough reads a missive his woman wrote to her mother.

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Flowers for Lisa Marie

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A C Wharton

The erstwhile politician of Memphis speaks astatine the memorial.

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Tennessee Mass Choir

The radical performs astatine the event.

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Billy Corgan

The Smashing Pumpkins vocalist honors Lisa Marie with a philharmonic tribute.

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Alanis Morissette

The vocalist performs her opus "Rest."

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Billy Corgan

The Smashing Pumpkins frontman performs his band's opus "Oh, Sheila."

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Sarah Ferguson

Sarah, Duchess of York, speaks astatine the memorial.

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Fans Gather Outside Graceland

Fans stitchery to wage their respects.

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