The late Lisa Marie Presley is a grandmother, her son-in-regulation discovered at her funeral.
At the singer’s star-studded memorial service at Graceland Jan. 22, her eldest daughter Riley Keough’s husband Ben Smith-Petersen read to the crowd a letter his spouse wrote to her late mom. “Thank you for exhibiting me that really like is the most crucial things in this life,” it explained. “I hope I can appreciate my daughter the way you loved me, the way you liked my brother and my sisters.”
A rep for Keough verified to E! News that the “Terminal Record” actress, granddaughter of the late Elvis Presley, and her spouse have welcomed a daughter. No further details about the child of the few, who wed in 2015, have been supplied.
Keough’s tribute to Lisa Marie Presley was titled “A Letter to My Mama.” Smith-Peterson read, “Thank you for currently being my mom in this life. I am eternally grateful to have spent 33 many years with you. I am particular I selected the most effective mother for me in this globe and I understood that as much back as I keep in mind you.”
He continued reading through, “I remember every thing. I keep in mind you providing me baths as a baby and I try to remember you driving me in my automobile seat listening to Aretha Franklin. I bear in mind the way you would cuddle me and when I might arrive into your mattress at night, and the way you smelled. I recall you getting me for ice product immediately after university in Florida. I bear in mind you singing me and my brother lullabies at night time and how you would lay with us right until we fell asleep.”
Lisa Marie Presley, who died Jan. 12 in Los Angeles after struggling a noted cardiac arrest at her property, was laid to rest following to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died by suicide in 2020 at age 27. Their graves are located near Elvis’.
In addition to Keough and her granddaughter, Lisa Marie is also survived by her young daughters, twins Finley Aaron Enjoy Lockwood and Harper Vivienne Ann Lockwood, 14, as well as her brother, Navarone Garcia, and their mother, Priscilla Presley. The 77-yr-previous, now a good-grandmother, also spoke at the memorial, reading through a take note penned by 1 of her granddaughters, who she did not identify.
“I have no strategy how to place my mother into terms,” she go through, “Real truth is, there are also lots of. Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a part product, a superhero to a lot of people all more than the environment, but Mama was my icon, my job product, my superhero, in significantly extra methods than a single. Even now, I are not able to get throughout anything there is to be recognized or known about her, but as she normally mentioned, I will do my finest.'”
