Priscilla Presley Eulogizes Daughter Lisa Marie Presley at Memorial Service: ‘Our Heart Is Broken’
Priscilla Presley paid tribute to her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley at her Graceland memorial service on Sunday with an emotional eulogy.
Following a speech from Jerry Schilling, the 77-300 and sixty five days-frail actress and businesswoman took to the stand. “I will be taught something that my granddaughter wrote for all of you, and this says all of it,” she began.
“‘I originate now not web any opinion how one can set apart my mother into phrases. Fact is, there are too many. Lisa Marie Presley used to be an icon, a job model, a superhero to many people all the contrivance by the world, but Mama used to be my icon, my role model, my superhero — in contrivance more ways than one,'” stated Priscilla. “‘Even now, I will be able to’t catch all the contrivance by the entirety there is to be understood or known about her, but as she always stated, I will terminate my most attention-grabbing.'”
Priscilla Presley.
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She then be taught from a poem titled “The Aged Soul,” written about Lisa Marie’s existence. “‘In 1968, she entered our world, born drained, fragile, but accurate. She used to be gentle, but used to be stuffed with existence. She always knew she would now not be here too prolonged,'” stated Priscilla. “‘Childhood passes by, with a look of her inexperienced seek, she then grew a family of her absorb. Then came her second shrimp one, leaving her with suspicion — can also this be the angel that takes me home?'”
The poem persisted, “‘Time, for optimistic, flew by. It used to be time for a tragedy. She knew it used to be near the terminate. Survivor’s guilt, some would dispute, but a broken coronary heart used to be the doing of her death. Now, she is home the set up apart she always belonged, but my coronary heart is missing her cherish.'”
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“‘She knew that I beloved her. I disaster I would never contact her,'” stated Priscilla, visibly tearing up whereas handing over the speech. “‘However the frail soul is always with me. She doesn’t float above.’ That claims all of it, and thank you desirous about being here… Our coronary heart is broken. Lisa, all of us cherish you.”
Priscilla and Lisa Marie Presley.
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The public service, held on the front backyard at the Graceland mansion in Memphis, Tennessee, used to be attended by family participants along side Priscilla, Lisa Marie’s daughter Riley Keough, half-brother Navarone Garcia, ex-husband Michael Lockwood, their 14-300 and sixty five days-frail twin daughters Finley and Harper and late son Benjamin’s girlfriend Diana Jay.
Lisa Marie died Jan. 12 after being rushed to a Los Angeles sanatorium for a imaginable cardiac arrest. The daughter of Elvis Presley used to be 54.
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Priscilla, 77, confirmed the guidelines in a assertion: “It is with a heavy coronary heart that I deserve to fragment the devastating recordsdata that my superb daughter Lisa Marie has left us.”
“She used to be the most passionate accurate and loving lady I even web ever known. We seek recordsdata from for privateness as we are trying to handle this profound loss,” she persisted. “Thank you for the cherish and prayers. At the present there will seemingly be no additional comment.”
The singer-songwriter is survived by her mother and her three daughters, Riley Keough, 33, and twins Finley and Harper Lockwood, 14, to boot to a granddaughter. Lisa Marie used to be preceded in death by her son Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide at age 27 in 2020.
Her closing resting station will seemingly be at Graceland subsequent to her son Benjamin, in conserving with daughter Riley’s consultant.
Lisa Marie will join her son at the Meditation Backyard — which will seemingly be the closing resting station of Elvis, Elvis’ mother Gladys Presley, Elvis’ father Vernon Presley and Elvis’ grandmother Minnie Mae Presley.
