Lisa Marie Presley funeral

Thousands of people were expected to attend the memorial in Memphis for Ms. Presley, the singer-songwriter and only child of Elvis Presley who died Jan. 12 in ...

For Ms. But not all of the assets remained with Ms. As Elvis Presley’s sole heir, she inherited her father’s estate in 1993 after the deaths of Vernon Presley and Minnie Mae Presley, according to court records in 2018. Presley’s memorial service, Graceland’s 450-room hotel, a separate property on its grounds, sold out “immediately,” said Kevin Kane, the chief executive of Memphis Tourism, and hotels near the museum and Beale Street, where musicians such as Elvis Presley and B.B. The program for the service reflected Ms. Presley spent most of her life in California, where she enjoyed the status of a major celebrity but struggled to distinguish herself as a star in her own right, she maintained ties to her hometown with frequent visits to Graceland, her childhood home. Later, something that Riley Keough, Ms. Presley’s oldest daughter, had written in honor of her mother was read aloud by Ms. Presley’s fans have been to the family and how much Graceland meant to her, according to David Beckwith, a spokesman for Elvis Presley Enterprises. Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, who said she called Ms. And noting the “peaks and valleys” of her often tragic life, he lauded her for “the sheer force of will it took Lisa to keep climbing.” To family and friends, she was a doting mother, a caring friend and a woman who persevered through a life that for all its glamour was punctuated too often by grief.

Mourners gathered in front of the mansion-turned-museum to remember the life of Elvis Presley's daughter, a singer-songwriter who died earlier this month.

The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977. Presley, a 54-year-old singer-songwriter dedicated to her father’s legacy, died Jan. “We will always be grateful.”

Fans gathered at Elvis Presley's home at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, for Lisa Marie Presley's memorial on Sunday morning.

[Priscilla Presley](https://people.com/tag/priscilla-presley/), [daughter Riley Keough](https://people.com/movies/riley-keough-mourns-mom-lisa-marie-presley-death/), Axl Rose and more will celebrate her life, Lisa Marie's family and friends were seen embracing at the service. Elvis died in August 1977 when Lisa Marie was 9 years old, making her the joint heir to his estate alongside grandfather Vernon Presley and great-grandmother Minnie Mae Hood Presley. "Grief is something you will have to carry with you for the rest of your life," she wrote last August in an emotional essay for PEOPLE about navigating grief. After Elvis' death when she was 9, she weathered further hardships in the public eye, including high-profile divorces and struggles with addiction. With her father's smoldering eyes and signature pout, Lisa Marie was beloved by fans from the moment she was born. Hours later, Priscilla confirmed in a statement the death of her and Elvis' only child together.

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose performs "November Rain" on piano at the public memorial service for Lisa Marie Presley at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, ...

He ended his remembrance with the words, "As I was in the hospital with her father when Priscilla was giving birth, I was at the hospital with her mother when she left us. So for Riley, for Harper, for Finley, we're with you and we will help you. So today we talk about action and action is the way we can go forward, we can light the flame. Jerry Schilling — a talent manager who was a member of Elvis Presley's Memphis Mafia and has remained a close friend of the Presley family to this day — spoke at the public memorial for Lisa Marie Presley, wom he'd nicknamed "Memphis," at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, on Jan. … We look at Priscilla as a mother as a mother to Lisa Marie, we look to Lisa Marie and say, you lost a son. "I hope I can love my daughter the way you loved me, the way you loved my brother and my sisters," Riley wrote in her tribute, adding, "Thank you for giving me strength, my heart, my empathy, my courage, my sense of humor, my manners, my temper, my wildness, my tenacity. The same day, the Presley family held a public memorial service on the law in front of the Graceland mansion where music stars including Axl Rose, [Alanis Morissette](https://www.wonderwall.com/celebrity/profiles/overview/alanis-morissette-1297.article) and Billy Corgan performed and friends and family including mother Priscilla Presley, son-in-law Ben Smith-Petersen and British royal Sarah, Duchess of York shared remembrances. _ So Sissy, this is for you with affection. I'm a product of your heart, my sisters are a product of your heart, my brother is a product of your heart." My late mother-in-law [Queen Elizabeth II said] that nothing said can begin to take away the anguish and the pain of these moments bc grief is the price we pay for love, and how right she was. [her tragic, unexpected death at 54](https://www.wonderwall.com/celebrity/stars-react-to-the-death-of-lisa-marie-presley-691312.gallery), Lisa Marie Presley was laid to rest at Graceland, her childhood home, next to son Benjamin Keough and across from father Elvis Presley and his parents.

Lisa Marie Presley will be laid to rest following a memorial service which comes just over a week after her sudden death. The singer and actor died at the ...

Guns N’ Roses singer Axl Rose also spoke about his friend Lisa Marie Presley before performing the band’s song November Rain. “Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world. Memphis, I will always love you.” US talent manager Jerry Schilling, who worked with both Elvis and Lisa Marie Presley, recalled key moments from the late singer’s life during her memorial. Wharton added: “I don’t know much about Hollywood, I can’t speak for New York or any other city where Lisa may have spent time, but I can tell you that Lisa Marie was this city’s precious jewel.” The former Mayor of Memphis has recalled the “hard times” the city faced when Lisa Marie Presley was born in 1968 but how important her birth was at the time. Jason Clark and The Tennessee Mass Choir opened the proceedings with a powerful rendition of Amazing Grace. The foundation offers support to various charitable organisations, especially focusing on arts, education, and children’s programmes in the Memphis/Whitehaven area. A public memorial for Lisa Marie will take place at Graceland on Sunday (22 January). Upon the rock legend’s death, when she was only nine years old, Lisa Marie became the joint heir to his estate, with her grandfather, Vernon Presley, and her great-grandmother, Minnie Mae Hood Presley. Advertisement The singer and actor died at the age of 54 on Thursday, 12 January, hours after being “rushed” to hospital.

Lisa Marie Presley's Graceland memorial service on Sunday will feature speeches and tributes from Sarah Ferguson, Axl Rose, Alanis Morissette and more.

She used to write to me saying, ‘Yeah, I’m really gushing at how wonderful my children are right now.’” Just have a wonderful time, as I will, living through you.” But as it is, another life beckoned.”

On a gloomy, chilly Sunday morning in Memphis, hundreds of people gathered on Graceland's front lawn to honor Lisa Marie Presley, who passed away earlier ...

On Sunday, the property in south Memphis was a site of melancholy and sad recollections. Ben Smith-Petersen, the boyfriend of Riley Keough, the eldest daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, read a message on her behalf. "We will always be grateful." My eternal love "I hope you finally know how loved you were here. I hope I can love my daughter like you loved me. Like you loved my brother and sisters.

Priscilla Presley read a poem by one of her granddaughters and Axl Rose sang a Guns N' Roses song at the Graceland memorial for Lisa Marie Presley.

[Lisa Marie Presley, singer and daughter of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, dies at 54](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-12/lisa-marie-presley-dead-obit-elvis-presley-daughter) My brother is a product of your heart. My sisters are a product of your heart. Lisa is loved and missed by many and will continue to be loved and missed by all those whose lives she touched.” I’m a product of your heart. During the service, Corgan of the Smashing Pumpkins performed an acoustic rendition of “To Sheila,” and Morissette sang her song “Rest,” accompanied by a piano. [Lisa Marie Presley’s Graceland memorial is open to the public. I’m certain I chose the best mother for me in this world, and I knew that as far back as I can remember you. “‘Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world. “This is truly devastating and, I’m sure, excruciating for everyone here and all those affected by her passing. [public memorial service](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-01-21/lisa-marie-presley-graceland-memorial-service-how-to-watch) at Elvis Presley’s mansion in Memphis, Tenn., were musicians Billy Corgan, Alanis Morissette and Axl Rose, as well as Priscilla Presley. Her son, [Benjamin Keough, died in July 2020](https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-07-12/grandson-of-elvis-presley-has-died-at-age-27-agent-says) at age 27.

Performing during the services for Lisa Marie Presley held at Graceland, Rose played the band's song, "November Rain" on a piano.

Rose, as Bill Bailey, was a distance runner for two years while in high school. ["November Rain" on a piano](https://youtu.be/1jzHDdmP3Zo). 12 at age 54, just days after attending the Golden Globe Awards where Austin Butler won best actor for portraying her father in the 2022 movie, "Elvis."

Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley, has been remembered during a funeral service as a loving mother and an “old ...

“She was born into the public, born into fame. “I’m a product of your heart.” She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. Clark said Lisa Marie “went through a lot” in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when “people came from all over.” The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42.

An estimated crowd of 5000 celebrated the life of Lisa Marie Presley on Sunday at Graceland in Memphis.

"You had to keep your mind going on why you were there, to remember Elvis, and not get caught in the craziness." (At the start of the service, Joel Weinshanker, majority owner of Elvis Presley Enterprises, described Graceland as "the forever home of Lisa Marie Presley." ["A Celebration of the Life of Lisa Marie Presley"](https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2023/01/22/lisa-marie-presley-live-updates-from-graceland-memorial-service-memphis-burial/69820642007/) (that's how the event was identified on the cover of the four-page program that was handed out by the thousands to the mourning fans who crowded the rain-soaked north lawn of Graceland). It breaks my heart for the twins, because I am the mother of twins." She saw him in concert in Hawaii and Las Vegas, and she came to Memphis the day after Elvis' Aug. "Lisa Marie was his flesh and blood," said Julie Anderson Roy, 50, of Bradley, Illinois. 12 of an apparent cardiac arrest in California](https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/entertainment/2023/01/13/lisa-marie-presley-dies-elvis-daughter-graceland/69804300007/) represented, to a certain extent, the closing of a "full circle," like the circle of graves around the fountain in the Meditation Garden at Graceland — a circle that now includes the King of Rock 'n' Roll on its south side and his "little princess," Lisa Marie Presley, on its north. "I was in the hospital with her father when Priscilla was giving birth," he said. "I was at the hospital with her mother when she left us." He said he never had held a baby before Elvis invited him to hold the infant Lisa Marie, while they were in the kitchen at Graceland. The service was book-ended by gospel numbers, including "How Great Thou Art" and "Sweet, Sweet Spirit," performed by the Blackwood Brothers. Sunday, she was in Memphis to mourn her friend Lisa Marie ("We called each other Sissy").

Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley, was remembered during a funeral service as a loving mother and a dedicated protector of her father's ...

She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. “She was born into the public, born into fame. “I’m a product of your heart.” Clark said Lisa Marie “went through a lot” in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when “people came from all over.” When she next saw him, the following day, he was lying face down in the bathroom. The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42. Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died. Jordan Clark, 25, traveled from Mobile, Alabama, to attend the service. Fans, some teary-eyed, walked slowly by the tomb, pausing to pay their respects. Music punctuated the service. “We will always be grateful.”

MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Lisa Marie Presley, a singer, songwriter and the daughter of Elvis Presley, was remembered during a funeral service Sunday as a loving ...

"She was born into the public, born into fame. "I'm a product of your heart." She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it and items inside the home. The property in south Memphis was a place of sadness and somber memories on Sunday. Clark said Lisa Marie "went through a lot" in her life and equated the service to the time when Elvis died, when "people came from all over." The mansion, which Lisa Marie Presley owned, has been turned into a museum and tourist attraction that hundreds of thousands of fans visit each year to celebrate the life and music of Elvis, who died in 1977 at age 42.

Ben Smith-Petersen, marido de la actriz Riley Keough nieta de Elvis Presley, asombra al revelar que él y su mujer dieron la bienvenida a una niña.

Friends and family gathered at Graceland on Sunday to honor Elvis Presley's late daughter Lisa Marie, who died earlier this month at 54.

Like her great-grandparents and grandparents before her, Lisa Marie was laid to rest in the Garden—her above-ground grave sits next to that of her late son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020. Naturally, music served as a central connector between the service’s movements, and plenty of renowned musicians came to play Lisa Marie out. As part of her speech, Priscilla chose to read “The Old Soul,” a poem written by Lisa Marie’s daughter Harper Lockwood. “I’m a product of your heart.” [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/lisa-marie-presley-remembered-graceland-memorial-service-rcna66932)), Lisa Marie’s service began with a rendition of “Amazing Grace” sung by Jason Clark & The Tennessee Mass Choir. On Sunday, more than a thousand mourners gathered at Graceland to honor the life of Elvis Presley’s only daughter Lisa Marie Presley, who died earlier this month after a cardiac arrest episode.