Respect her memory. The family of Lisa Marie Presley has revealed that they will hold a public memorial service on Sunday, January 22, for the late singer after her death earlier this month.
“Riley, Harper, Finley, and Priscilla are grateful for the support, hope, and love they have shown in honor of their beloved Lisa Marie,” a representative for the famous family said. Us Weekly in a statement on Friday, January 16. “A public memorial service has been organized on the front lawn of Graceland at 9:00 a.m. on Sunday, January 22, in Memphis. Please stop by [the official Graceland website] for more information.”
In lieu of flowers, Priscilla and her granddaughter ask that “those who wish to send something” donate to the Elvis Presley Charitable Foundation. The philanthropic organization offers “support for a variety of charitable organizations, primarily focusing on the arts, education, and children’s programs in the Memphis/Whitehaven area.”
Lisa Marie’s death was confirmed on Thursday, January 12, by her mother, Priscilla Presley. He died just a few hours later us confirmed that the “Now What” singer has been taken to the hospital after suffering a heart attack at her home in Calabasas, California.
“It is with a heavy heart that I have to share the devastating news that my beautiful daughter Lisa Marie has left us,” Priscilla, 77, said in a statement at the time. “She was the strongest and most loving woman I have ever known. We ask for our privacy as we try to cope with this great loss.
The next day, a representative for Lisa Marie’s daughter, Riley Keoughtoward us that his mother’s final resting place will be at Graceland in Memphis, Tennessee, “next to her beloved son Ben.”
The only son of the “Fool” artist, Benjamin Keough, was buried on the property in October 2020, after having died by suicide three months earlier.
Lisa Marie will also join her father, Elvis Presley, who died in August 1977 at the age of 42, as well as her grandparents Vernon and Gladys Presley in the field. Elvis’ grandmother, Minnie Mae, is also buried at Graceland along with her twin brother, Jessie, who died at birth.
Graceland has been a focal point for Presley for decades, celebrating Elvis’ 80th birthday at the estate in 2015. Two years later, Lisa Marie held a public vigil for her father on the 40th anniversary of his death, with more than 50,000 fans joining him to hold a torch in his honor. they.
Lisa Marie is survived by her mother Priscilla and her children. She shares Benjamin and Riley, 33, with her first husband Danny Keough. The couple split in 1994 and the “Dirty Laundry” artist married Michael Jackson the same year. After calling it quits with the King of Pop in 1996, he got married Nicholas Cage in 2002. The two divorced in 2004.
The Tennessee native married for the fourth time in 2006 to Michael Lockwood, and the duo welcomed twin daughters, Harper and Finley, in October 2008. In 2016, Lisa Marie filed for divorce from the guitarist, 61, and she finalized the documents five years later.