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Riley Keough Honors Late Mom Lisa Marie Presley With Moving Tribute
The late Lisa Marie Presley is a grandmother, her son-in-law revealed astatine her funeral.
At the singer's star-studded memorial service astatine Graceland Jan. 22, her eldest girl Riley Keough's husband Ben Smith-Petersen read to the crowd a missive his woman wrote to her precocious mom. "Thank you for showing maine that emotion is the astir important things successful this life," it said. "I anticipation I tin emotion my girl the mode you loved me, the mode you loved my member and my sisters."
A rep for Riley confirmed to E! News that the Terminal List actress, girl of the precocious Elvis Presley, and her hubby person welcomed a daughter. No further details about the child of the couple, who wed successful 2015, were provided.
Riley's tribute to Lisa Marie was titled "A Letter to My Mama." Ben read, "Thank you for being my parent successful this life. I americium eternally grateful to person spent 33 years with you. I'm definite I chose the champion parent for maine successful this satellite and I knew that arsenic acold backmost arsenic I retrieve you."
He continued reading, "I retrieve everything. I retrieve you giving maine baths arsenic a babe and I retrieve you driving maine successful my car spot listening to Aretha Franklin. I retrieve the mode you would cuddle maine and erstwhile I'd travel into your furniture astatine night, and the mode you smelled. I retrieve you taking maine for crystal pick aft schoolhouse successful Florida. I retrieve you singing maine and my member lullabies astatine nighttime and however you would laic with america until we fell asleep."
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Lisa Marie, who died Jan. 12 successful Los Angeles after suffering a reported cardiac apprehension astatine her home, was laid to remainder adjacent to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by termination successful 2020 at property 27. Their graves are located adjacent Elvis'.
In summation to Riley and her granddaughter, Lisa Marie is besides survived by her younger daughters, twins Finley Aaron Love Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, 14, arsenic good arsenic her brother, Navarone Garcia, and their mother, Priscilla Presley. The 77-year-old, present a great-grandmother, besides spoke astatine the memorial, speechmaking a enactment penned by 1 of her granddaughters, who she did not name.
"I person nary thought however to enactment my parent into words," she read, "Truth is, determination are excessively many. Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a relation model, a superhero to galore radical each implicit the world, but Mama was my icon, my relation model, my superhero, successful overmuch much ways than one. Even now, I can't get crossed everything determination is to beryllium understood oregon known astir her, but arsenic she ever said, I'll bash my best.'"
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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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