Actress Farrah Fawcett remembered at LA funeral

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Thursday, July 02, 2009

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) - The life of Charlie's Angels star Farrah Fawcett was celebrated Tuesday at a private funeral in the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels.

The casket of actress Farrah Fawcett is carried to the funeral services for the actress on Tuesday in Los Angeles (Photo: AP)

Her long-time companion, Ryan O'Neal, 68, was among pallbearers who accompanied the casket, covered in yellow and orange flowers, into the Roman Catholic cathedral.

Fawcett's friend Alana Stewart and Charlie's Angels co-star Kate Jackson were among early arrivers before the hearse pulled up, accompanied by 10 motorcycle officers.

The private service lasted more than an hour as fans and news media watched from across a street.
A bag piper was the first to emerge from the cathedral after the service, followed by several priests and the pallbearers carrying Fawcett's casket. Her father was helped into a limousine as dozens of other mourners waited nearby to board several white shuttle buses.

The funeral programme said Fawcett's and O'Neal's 24-year-old son, Redmond, was to do the service's first reading. He has been jailed in a drug case but received a judge's permission to attend the funeral.

Fawcett died last Thursday at age 62 after a public battle with cancer. Diagnosed with a rare cancer in 2006, Fawcett's battle with the disease was documented in Farrah's Story, which aired last month on NBC.