Brokeback Mountain: Our Community's Common Bond > Heath Ledger Remembrance Forum
How to contribute to sending flowers/condolences to Australia
Meryl:
Thanks, John and Leslie! :-*
ptannen:
I'm just getting caught up with this thread. . .
Peachy, you done good - not to worry!
I also like the idea of flowers delivered each year on Heath's birthday.
Pete
Meryl:
Peachy and Kerry, a favor to ask: could one of you find out for sure if Heath has been laid to rest in Fremantle Cemetery? Or is he at Karrakatta as an earlier article stated?
If we can find this out, then maybe one of you could call and see if it's possible to have flowers delivered there, and if they save any cards that accompany the flowers to give to the family. I would love to be able to make this happen so our minds will be at ease about it.
Thanks, dears. :-*
Verona:
At the last minute, I also decided to do some damage to my savings account (I make rash financial decisions late at night), and send flowers to Karrakatta as instructed. I got this email from Interflora afterwards:
Our florist has contacted us to advise that due to the requested privacy of the funeral the Karrakatta Cemetery will not disclose the time of the funeral service. We can advise our florist to deliver your order as early as possible on 9th February and advise the cemetery attendant to pass the flowers on at the relevant time
But despite this suggestion that the burial would indeed be at Karrakatta, all evidence points to him having been interred at Fremantle instead, and not one report mentions that Karrakatta was involved at all. So I emailed Interflora last night and got this response:
I have chased up your order with the executing florist. Your order was delivered to the requested cemetery quite early on the morning of the 9th. There they were placed at an allocated tribute area and a book signed on your behalf. To the best of our florists knowledge this was in keeping with the Ledger family's wishes.
This seems odd to me, as everything from the newspapers to Wikipedia to FindaGrave has changed Karrakatta to Fremantle. Has anyone else been in touch with Interflora? What story did you get? I'm about to contact Karrakatta and ask what actually became of all the flowers we sent, and if the family received the cards that accompanied the flowers. I have a funny feeling that they'll just tell us what we want to hear, though.
MaineWriter:
Louise posted on another thread...the crematorium is at Freemantle and that is where they had the very small service for 10 family members. But his cremains were interred at Karrakatta, with other members of his family.
L
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