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Heath Ledger - News Accounts
delalluvia:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on February 09, 2008, 11:38:22 am ---I agree with Leslie re: Jake: If I'd gone all the way to Australia, I'd want to attend the service, hang the media. Obviously, the service wasn't limited to family.
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Maybe he wasn't going to attend the funeral, but he went all the way to Perth to meet the family and to watch Matilda because Michelle asked him to.
souxi:
--- Quote from: MaineWriter on February 09, 2008, 11:41:57 am ---I have seen various news reports about the number of people at the funeral, ranging from 100, to 300, to 600.
Kim Ledger's wife has been named Mary in one report, and Ines is another.
So much for getting the facts right!
But no source has mentioned Jake and he is not in any picture I have seen.
L
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Yes I,ve seen wild variations on the number of people at the funeral too. Again no mention of Jake. I expect we,ll find out eventually, although as Leslie said, I can,t imagine him flying all the way to Australia and not attending, but llike I said, we,ll find out eventually I expect. I like the idea of the wake on the beach, I think Heath would have liked that.
opinionista:
--- Quote from: delalluvia on February 09, 2008, 11:47:47 am ---Maybe he wasn't going to attend the funeral, but he went all the way to Perth to meet the family and to watch Matilda because Michelle asked him to.
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Regardless of what Jake might have done, I would like to think that someone took Matilda someplace fun instead of making her stay home with a nanny. To the zoo or a theme park, for example. Maybe Jake did that, and the timing was probably perfect because the media was going to focus solely on the funeral. Young children don't understand grief and in times like that I think it is a good idea to encourage to have some fun, but that's me.
MaineWriter:
Looking at the pictures, I really like Michelle's dress, and it seems very appropriate.
My mother used to have special notepaper for writing sympathy notes. It was cream colored, with a black border and black border on the flap on the envelope. Michelle's dress reminds me of that with the black edging on the cream material.
I think she looks lovely, and it is nice to see a picture of her smiling.
L
Kd5000:
How can he be going into the family if his remains have already been cremated per this article in People.com? I thought he was going to be buried with his grandparents.
Thanks for some of the beach photos ppl have posted. A welcome change from the photos and tv imagery we have grown accustomed to seeing.
Heath Ledger Cremated in Fremantle, Australia
By Brenda Rodriguez and Melenie Ambrose
Originally posted Saturday February 09, 2008 03:00 AM EST
Heath Ledger
Photo by: Vera Anderson / WireImage
Heath Ledger's remains were cremated Saturday afternoon, local time, PEOPLE has confirmed.
Following a memorial at Penrhos College for hundreds of mourners, Michelle Williams, escorted by police, arrived with a small entourage of Ledger's closest family for a more intimate service at Fremantle Cemetery, just outside Perth, Australia. The chapel at Fremantle, which was blacked out with sheets and scaffolding, has only eight wooden pews and a lectern.
There, Williams read William Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 (“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”).
"It was a very emotional service,” a source tells PEOPLE.
Less than an hour after arriving, the mourners were spotted putting their arms around a clearly distressed Williams and hugging the chaplain in gratitude as they departed.
From there, they headed to the Indiana Tea House on Cottesloe Beach, where attendees from the earlier memorial could be seen smoking and drinking beer and red and white wine on the patio of the establishment, which has a spectacular view of the ocean. Williams was visibly shaken and looked like she had just been crying when she entered the restaurant.
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