Priscilla Presley Thanks Fans for Outpouring of Love After Daughter Lisa Marie’s Memorial: ‘A Very Difficult Time’
usmagazine.comA mourning mother. Priscilla Presley is thanking fans for their support following the death of her daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, at age 54.“Thank you all for your condolences, you have touched me with your words.
It has been a very difficult time but just knowing your love is out there makes a difference,” Priscilla, 77, tweeted on Monday, January 23, after Lisa Marie’s public memorial at Graceland in Tennessee.Lisa Marie’s loved ones gathered at the family’s mansion on Sunday, January 22, to say their goodbyes.
Priscilla struggled to hold back tears as she read a eulogy prepared by one of her younger granddaughters. (Lisa Marie shared twins Harper and Finley, 14, with ex-husband Michael Lockwood.)“I have no idea how to put my mother into words, truth is there are too many,” Priscilla said. “Lisa Marie Presley was an icon, a role model, a superhero to many people all over the world, but Mama was my icon, my role model, my superhero in much more ways than one.
Even now, I can’t get across everything there is to be understood or known about her but as she always said, ‘I’ll do my best.'”The New York native welcomed Lisa Marie with the late Elvis Presley in February 1968.
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