Lisa Marie Presley‘s last resting place is being prepared astatine Graceland successful Memphis, Tenn. for her upcoming nationalist memorial connected Sunday, Jan. 22. In pictures and a video obtained by the Daily Mail that tin beryllium viewed here, workers tin beryllium seen connected their manus and knees digging a sedate and preparing for the accomplishment of the precocious girl of stone fable Elvis Presley, who volition beryllium buried adjacent to her precocious son, Benjamin Keough. Other footage shows dozens of orangish operation cones scattered astir the country and flowers near by fans astatine Elvis’ erstwhile home’s beforehand gate.
Lisa’s sedate is located successful a spot adjacent to Graceland’s backyard fountain and astir straight crossed from wherever her begetter is buried. Several different members of the Presley household are buried astatine Graceland, including Elvis’ father, Vernon, mother, Gladys, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae. Elvis’ sedate tin beryllium seen below. There is besides a memorial chromatic for Elvis’ duplicate brother, who died astatine commencement successful 1935, astatine the household graveyard.
As fans know, Lisa died unexpectedly astatine the property of 54 connected Thursday, Jan. 12 aft suffering cardiac arrest. This came conscionable days aft she got emotional watching Austin Butler, 31, judge his first-ever Golden Globe for portraying Elvis Presley successful 2022’s biopic, Elvis, at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards. She besides made headlines that nighttime for crashing Austin’s reddish carpet interrogation with Entertainment Tonight and raving astir Austin’s performance. “I truly didn’t cognize what to bash with myself aft I saw [the movie],” she recalled. “I had to take, like, 5 days to process it due to the fact that it was truthful unthinkable and truthful spot connected and conscionable truthful authentic that, yeah, I can’t adjacent picture what it meant.”
Prior to that, however, she was reportedly successful large spirits astatine the Formosa Cafe successful West Hollywood, Calif. with her daughter, Riley Keough, 33, Austin, and the manager of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann, to observe what would person been Elvis’ 88th birthday. “They were truly adorable together. They were broadside by broadside the full night,” Bobby Green, the proprietor of the cafe, told PEOPLE connected Jan. 14. “And of course, I deliberation they had things to bash that night. They had to beryllium successful the Elvis booth together, and they had to get pictures, but they seemed to truly genuinely bask it…. They seemed precise happy.”
Although it is known she suffered from cardiac arrest, Lisa’s abrupt origin of decease has yet to beryllium revealed. All that is known arsenic of this penning is that her ex-husband, Danny Keough, performed CPR connected her at their Hollywood home arsenic helium awaited the paramedics to arrive. She was past placed into an induced coma and was connected beingness enactment earlier she passed distant aboriginal that evening astatine the hospital. Her household has a agelong past of bosom failure, including her father, who died of a bosom onslaught related to his maltreatment of a myriad of drugs. He died astatine the property of 42 successful 1977. His parent besides died young astatine the property of 44 owed to bosom failure.
Lisa was precise good alert that her puerility location would beryllium her last resting spot and adjacent sang astir her destiny successful her 2003 opus called “Light’s Out.” She sang, “Someone turned the lights retired determination successful Memphis, that’s wherever my family’s buried and gone. … Last clip I was there, I noticed a abstraction near adjacent to them determination successful Memphis successful the damn backmost lawn.”
She besides spoke astir it erstwhile discussing her opus successful a 2003 interrogation with Playboy. “The backmost tract of Graceland is simply a graveyard, basically. How galore radical person a household sedate successful the backyard?” she questioned. “How galore radical are reminded of their fate, their mortality, each [expletive] day? All the graves are lined up and there’s a spot there, waiting for me, close adjacent to my grandmother.”
Lisa near down three surviving children erstwhile she passed: twin daughters Harper and Finley, who she shares with her ex-husband Michael Lockwood, and girl Riley, who she shares with Danny.
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