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At his mother's funeral on Aug. 15, Elvis was distraught. "Goodby, Darling. Goodby! — I love you so much!" cried Elvis, according to the Memphis Press-Scimitar. "I lived my whole life just for you."
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Elvis and Vernon were deeply upset by her death, with Elvis "sobbing and crying hysterically," [8] and eyewitnesses relate that he was "grieving almost constantly" for days. [9] During and shortly after the funeral, Judy Spreckels and Nick Adams, Presley's best friends at that time, attempted to comfort the singer. [10]
Presley's funeral was held at Graceland on August 18. Outside the gates, a car crashed into a group of fans, killing two young women and critically injuring a third. [285] About 80,000 people lined the processional route to Forest Hill Cemetery, where Presley was buried next to his mother. [286]
In the special, Winfrey travels to the historic Graceland Mansion in Memphis, Tenn., to sit down with Keough, Elvis’s first-born grandchild, in her first in-depth interview since her mother died ...
Elvis Presley died on Aug. 16, 1977, in Memphis. The King of Rock 'n' Roll was 42 years old. ... (The family had a history of heart trouble: Gladys Presley, Elvis' mother, had died of a heart ...
Elvis and Vernon were both devastated by her death. Her funeral was held on August 15, and Presley collapsed several times before, during, and after the service. His mother had always been the most important person in his life, and now he felt as though everything he had worked for had been for nothing.
Presley hired Sumner & the Stamps as his back-up singers in 1971. The group toured and recorded with Presley from November 1971 until Presley's death in 1977. Sumner not only sang at Elvis' funeral but had previously sung at the funeral of Elvis' mother Gladys in 1958. [4] J.