Lisa Marie Presley will be buried in Graceland next to her son Benjamin Keogh.

Lisa Marie Presley will be buried at Graceland, the famous home of Elvis Presley, which on Friday became a gathering place for fans distraught by her death the day before.

The singer-songwriter’s final resting place will be near her son Benjamin Keough, who died in 2020, her daughter’s spokesman and actor Riley Keough said. Elvis and other members of the Presley family are also buried at Graceland.

Fans paid their respects at Graceland Gate on Friday by writing messages on a stone wall, leaving flowers and sharing memories of Elvis Presley’s only child, who was one of the last remaining touchstones for an icon whose influence and meaning still resonate more than 45 years later. . his own sudden death.

Lisa Marie Presley, 54, died on Thursday, hours after being admitted to the hospital for emergency care.

Singer-songwriter Lisa Marie herself did not live in Memphis, where she was born. But she made trips to the city to celebrate her father’s birth anniversary and commemorate his death, which stunned the world when he was found dead in his home in Graceland at the age of 42 on August 16, 1977. She was in Memphis just recently. Sunday, when her father would have turned 88.

Angela Ferraro was among those who stopped at Graceland Thursday night, where the trees on the front lawn were adorned with green and red lights. On a cool and windy evening, fans took pictures and left flowers at the gate.

Ferraro and her fiancé drove 25 minutes from Olive Branch, Mississippi to pay their respects. Ferraro said she was a fan of Elvis and Lisa Marie’s music – the couple listened to Lisa Marie’s “Lights Out” on their way north to Graceland.

“Elvis died young and so did she. And her son, his death was also very tragic, said Ferraro, 32. “It’s hard and devastating.”

Lisa Marie became the sole heir to the Elvis Presley Foundation, which, along with Elvis Presley Enterprises, managed Graceland and other assets until she sold a majority stake in 2005. She retained ownership of the mansion itself, the 13 acres around it, and the items inside. house.

A spokesman for Elvis Presley Enterprises told The Associated Press that the mansion is in a trust that will benefit her children – she is survived by three daughters. The representative did not provide details about the timing of the funeral or burial.

Lisa Marie was 9 years old when her father died. She was living in Graceland at the time and recalled how he kissed her goodnight hours before his death. When she next saw him the next day, he was lying face down in the tub.

“I just had a hunch,” she told Rolling Stone magazine in 2003. – He was not very good. All I know is that I had this (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 the new exhibition Elvis Through His Daughter’s Eyes, a personal image showing her childhood shoes – her birth, nine months after Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s wedding, made international news – as as well as his first record player and a little white coat.

During an interview with AP during this stop, she smiled as she recalled her time with her father. She said that one of her favorite items was the key used to operate the golf cart because it helped her remember when she was alone with her father, driving around the neighborhood.

“That was my life,” she said. “I carried it everywhere. When I was a child, he was never far from me or near me. I haven’t seen him for 35 years.”

On Thursday, Suncell Vance, 50, made a Graceland tour that included a stop at Lisa Marie’s old swing and her son’s grave.

About an hour and a half later, Vance learned of Lisa Marie’s death; the mood at the guest house in Graceland, the hotel where she was staying, became gloomy. Vance, who chose to stay in Memphis while moving from Mississippi to California, said it was “surreal” that she was in Graceland the day Lisa Marie died.

Kristen Sinato 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 zipper (short for instant case resolution, Elvis’ motto) on the back as she described meeting Lisa Marie at her father’s birthday party. Sainato placed a bouquet of flowers at Graceland’s main gate, where one of the two planes is named after Lisa Marie.

“This is for Lisa,” she said.

She said that Lisa Marie Presley was one of her last ties to her famous father.

“Everyone is shocked by 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 bordered the home museum. “She deserved a long happy life.”