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Friday, March 25th, 2011 at 9:11 am , filed under Breaking News by Lucy Taylor
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The family members of Elizabeth Taylor have gathered for her delayed funeral at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in California.
The friends and all the family members of Hollywood star Icon, Elizabeth Taylor have attended for her funeral on Thursday afternoon, which was delayed by 15 minutes. Reportedly, her funeral was delayed as per her instructions; she has left before her unexpected death.
The casket of Elizabeth Taylor was closed and covered with violets, lilies and the gardenias. Her funeral was performed at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in California, where her friend Michael Jackson was rested. The funeral was performed at royal cemetery.
According to the sources, five black stretch limousines brought the casket of Taylor to the mausoleum. The funeral was performed as a private with the presence of few friends and the family members.
Michael, Christopher Wilding, Liza Todd and Maria Burton are the Elizabeth’s four children. Michael and Liza along with her grandson Tarquin have read some selections in her memory and another grandson Rhys Tivey performed a solo ‘Amazing Grace’ with trumpet.
The funeral service was for an hour by Rabbi Jerry Cutler. Also, Collin Farrell, who is a friend of Elizabeth read the poem “The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo” of Gerard Manley Hopkins. The funeral was completely for the family of her family.
Taylor died on Wednesday, because of congestive heart failure in Los Angels at Cedars-Sinai Center at the age of 79. She was already hospitalized because of her constant health issues. She also underwent a heart surgery during the year 2009. She also appeared in some interviews and she was admitted in the hospital again in late February.
She was born on February 27, 1932 and passed away on March 23, 2011. She was married for eight times and has seven husbands, where she married twice to Richard Burton after her divorce with him. Conrad Hilton, Jr, Michael Wilding, Mike Todd, Eddie Fisher, John Warner, Larry Fortensky were her other six husbands she was married during her lifetime. She has one older brother ‘Howard Taylor’.
Taylor is two time Oscar Award winner. She is one of the great actresses of Hollywood’s Golden Age and has been ranked seventh on the list of Female Legends.
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