Less than a week after succumbing to a long battle with cancer, Farrah Fawcett was laid to rest on Tuesday during a ceremony held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels in Los Angeles.
As the hearse bearing Fawcett’s body pulled up to the church, her longtime love Ryan O’Neal, best friend Alana Stewart, and a handful of men waited outside to receive her. Around 200 friends, colleagues and family members attended the invite-only service including former fellow Charlie’s Angels Jaclyn Smith and Kate Jackson, ex-husband Lee Majors, Ernie Hudson, Cheryl Tiegs, romance novelist Jackie Collins, Dynasty villain Joan Collins, Gary Shandling, Marla Maples, hairstylist Jose Eber, who created the famous feathered Farrah ‘do, and O’Neal’s daughter Tatum and son Griffin.

Eight pallbearers brought her coffin into the church, which was covered with a huge bouquet of orange, yellow and white flowers. Her son Redmond was also on hand and read the first reading from the Bible (Lamentations 3: 17 – 26) as a bagpiper played “Amazing Grace” to start the service. Ryan read the second reading (Wisdom 3: 1- 9) and Stewart and Farrah’s oncologist, Dr. Lawrence Piro, delivered eulogies. “Goodbye sweet girl,” said Stewart. “[Farrah] never felt sorry for herself during her illness. She fought cancer furiously…She always seemed so indestructible.”
The program passed out at the ceremony was an ode to the icon’s glamorous persona. On the cover, a glowing Fawcett is shown giving a million-dollar smile to the camera. Inside the cover the words of James Joyce set the tone for the somber event. From his quoted poem At That Hour:
Play on, invisible harps, unto Love,
Whose way in heaven is aglow
At that hour when soft lights come and go,
Soft sweet music in the air above
And in the earth below.
At the end of the ceremony, Fawcett’s casket was carried out by Ryan, Redmond, and six pallbearers as bagpipes solemnly played. After the funeral, guests were taken by van to a private reception at the Jonathan Club in Santa Monica.
Fawcett passed away at age 62 at Saint John’s Hospital in Santa Monica, Calif., last Thursday — just hours before Michael Jackson. Fawcett was with O’Neal, Stewart and Piro at the time of her death.
“Although this is an extremely difficult time for her family and friends, we take comfort in the beautiful times that we shared with Farrah over the years and the knowledge that her life brought joy to so many people around the world,” O’Neal said after Fawcett’s death.





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