Lisa Marie Presley’s remaining resting place shall be at Graceland, the previous dwelling of her late father, rock ‘n’ roll legend Elvis Presley, and the burial web site of a number of members of the Presley household.
Lisa Marie Presley died Jan. 12 on the age of 54, hours after being hospitalized attributable to a cardiac arrest. The singer-songwriter’s loss of life was confirmed by her mom, actor Priscilla Presley, who known as her daughter in an announcement, “essentially the most passionate, robust and loving girl I’ve ever recognized.”
Lisa Marie Presley shall be buried subsequent to her late son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020.
A public memorial for Lisa Marie Presley is ready to happen Jan. 22 on the entrance garden of the famed Memphis, Tennessee, mansion. She lived at Graceland as a bit of woman along with her mother and father and visited her father there after her mother and father’ 1972 cut up. Simply 4 days earlier than she died, Lisa Marie Presley was at Graceland to rejoice what would have been Elvis Presley’s 88th birthday.
As the previous couple’s solely baby, Lisa Marie Presley inherited the sprawling property after Elvis Presley’s loss of life in 1977 when she was simply 9 years outdated.
Now, Lisa Marie Presley’s three surviving daughters — actor Riley Keough, 33, whom Presley shared with ex-husband Danny Keough, and twins Harper and Finley, 14, whom Presley shared with ex-husband Michael Lockwood — will inherit Graceland, which continues to be visited by hundreds of Elvis Presley followers annually.
Listed below are the members of the Presley household buried at Graceland.
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Elvis Presley
The King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Elvis Presley, died of a coronary heart assault on Aug. 16, 1977 at age 42. The “Hound Canine” singer was initially buried subsequent to his mom, Gladys, at Memphis’ Forest Hill Cemetery. After an try was made to steal Presley’s coffin, each his and Gladys’ our bodies had been moved to Graceland, the place they had been buried within the Meditation Backyard.
Elvis Presley’s life story was just lately depicted in Baz Luhrmann’s “Elvis” starring Austin Butler.
Lisa Marie Presley
After Lisa Marie Presley’s memorial service on Jan. 22, there shall be a procession to view her remaining resting place within the Meditation Backyard, in line with a discover from Graceland. Riley Keough, the eldest of her kids, posted a tribute to her late mother on Jan. 20, just some days earlier than the service.
In 2003, Lisa Marie Presley opened as much as Rolling Stone concerning the trauma of discovering her father useless at Graceland when she was 9 years outdated. When her father had kissed her good evening she “simply had a sense.” The next day, she discovered him facedown within the lavatory.
“All I do know is I had it (a sense), and it occurred,” she instructed the publication. “I used to be obsessive about loss of life at a really early age.”
Lisa Marie Presley sang of at some point being buried at Graceland herself on the ominous single “Lights Out” from her 2003 debut album, “To Whom It Could Concern.”
“Somebody turned the lights on the market in Memphis,” she sang. “Ooh, that’s the place my household’s buried and gone / Final time I used to be there I observed an area left / Subsequent to them there in Memphis / Within the rattling again garden.”
Benjamin Keough
Lisa Marie’s Presley’s solely son, Benjamin Keough, died by obvious suicide in 2020 at age 27.
Presley was vocal about her grief over her son’s loss of life, writing in an essay for Individuals in August that she had “been dwelling within the horrific actuality of its unrelenting grips since my son’s loss of life two years in the past.”
“I’ve handled loss of life, grief and loss because the age of 9 years outdated,” she wrote. “I’ve had greater than anybody’s justifiable share of it in my lifetime and someway, I’ve made it this far.”
Gladys and Vernon Presley
Elvis Presley was devastated by the loss of life of his beloved mom, Gladys, who died Aug. 14, 1958, at age 46 of a coronary heart assault simply months after Elvis was drafted into the U.S. Military, in line with the Washington Publish.
His father, Vernon Presley, died June 26, 1979, in Memphis. The couple are buried subsequent to at least one one other and near their son within the Meditation Backyard at Graceland. A memorial to their stillborn son, Elvis’ twin brother Jessie, additionally lies within the backyard.
Gladys Presley’s gravestone includes a Star of David to replicate her Jewish heritage.
Minnie Mae Presley
Elvis Presley’s paternal grandmother, Minnie Mae Presley, died on Could 8, 1980, in Memphis. She can also be buried within the Meditation Backyard at Graceland.
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