The singer-songwriter’s remaining resting place shall be subsequent to her son, Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, mentioned a consultant of her daughter and actor Riley Keough.
Elvis and different members of the Presley household are additionally buried at Graceland.
Fans paid their respects at Graceland’s gates on Friday, writing messages on the stone wall, leaving flowers and sharing reminiscences of Elvis Presley’s solely baby, who was one of many final remaining touchstones to the icon whose affect and significance nonetheless resonates greater than 45 years after his personal sudden demise.
Lisa Marie Presley, 54, died Thursday, hours after being hospitalised for a medical emergency.
A singer-songwriter herself, Lisa Marie didn’t dwell in Memphis, the place she was born. But she made journeys to the town for celebrations of her father’s delivery anniversary and commemorations of his demise, which shocked the world when he was discovered useless in his Graceland residence at age 42 on August 16, 1977.
She was in Memphis simply this previous Sunday, on what would have been her father’s 88th birthday.
Angela Ferraro was amongst these on Thursday evening who stopped by Graceland, the place the timber within the entrance garden had been adorned by inexperienced and purple lights.
Fans took pictures and left flowers on the entrance gate on the chilly and windy night.
Ferraro and her fiancé drove 25 minutes from Olive Branch, Mississippi, to pay their respects.
Ferraro mentioned she was a fan of Elvis’ music and of Lisa Marie’s — the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s tune “Lights Out” on the drive north to Graceland.
“Elvis died young, and so did she. And her son, his passing was very tragic as well,” mentioned Ferraro, 32.
“It’s hard and it’s devastating.”
Lisa Marie turned the only inheritor of the Elvis Presley Trust, which, together with Elvis Presley Enterprises, managed Graceland and different belongings till she bought her majority curiosity in 2005.
She retained possession of the mansion itself, the 13 acres round it and objects inside the house.
A consultant from Elvis Presley Enterprises advised The Associated Press that the mansion is in a belief that can go to the advantage of her youngsters — she’s survived by three daughters.
The consultant didn’t have particulars on the timing of a funeral or burial.
Lisa Marie was 9 when her father died.
She was staying at Graceland on the time and would recall him kissing her goodnight hours earlier than he died.
When she subsequent noticed him, the next day, he was mendacity face down within the toilet.
“I just had a feeling,” she advised Rolling Stone in 2003.
“He wasn’t doing well. All I know is I had it (a feeling), and it happened. I was obsessed with death at a very early age.”
Lisa Marie visited Graceland in 2012 to attend the opening of a brand new exhibit, “Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes,” a personal look that included her baby shoes — her birth, nine months exactly after Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s wedding, was international news — as well as her first record player and a small white fur coat.
During an interview with the AP during that stop, she smiled when recalling the time spent with her dad.
She said one of her favorite items was the key used to operate a golf cart because it helped her recall when she was alone with her father, riding around the neighborhood.
“That was my life,” she mentioned. “I carried it everywhere. It was never far from me or not on my person when I was a child. I hadn’t seen it in 35 years.”
On Thursday, Sancelle Vance, 50, had taken the Graceland tour, which included a stop by Lisa Marie’s old swing set and the grave of her son.
About an hour and a half later, Vance heard about Lisa Marie’s death; the mood at The Guest House at Graceland, the hotel where she is staying, became somber.
Vance, who decided to stop in Memphis while moving from Mississippi to California, said it was “surreal” that she was at Graceland on the day Lisa Marie died.
Kristen Sainato and her husband were visiting Memphis from Cleveland when she heard the news of Lisa Marie’s death on Thursday.
She wore a black jacket with the well-known TCB lightning bolt (shorthand for taking care of business in a flash, a motto Elvis lived by) on the back as she described meeting Lisa Marie at a celebration of her father’s birthday.
Sainato set down a bouquet of flowers at the front gate of Graceland, where one of two planes is named for Lisa Marie.
“Those are for Lisa,” she said.
She said Lisa Marie Presley was one of the last connections to her famous father.
“Everyone is shocked over this. Why? Why did this have to happen?” Sainato said, wiping tears from her eyes as she stood in front of the stone wall that borders the home-turned museum.
“She deserved a long, happy life.”
