USA: BEVERLY HILLS: MOURNERS BID FAREWELL TO FRANK SINATRA (2)

(20 May 1998) Natural Sound

Frank Sinatra is making the journey to his final resting place.

Family members will lay him to rest in a private burial service at a Palm Springs cemetery on Wednesday.

Earlier hundreds of friends attended a private mass for the star at a church in Beverly Hills.

Family, friends and colleagues of the late Frank Sinatra have bid a final farewell.

Big name Hollywood stars, many former colleagues of Sinatra, were among the 400 family and friends who packed the Good Shepherd Roman Catholic church in Hollywood.

The service lasted about two hours.

Mourners filed out of the church, many still overcome with grief as they comforted each other.

They then watched in silence as the elaborate casket carrying the body of Frank Sinatra and blanketed in red and white gardenias was carried out.

Sinatra's widow, Barbara, his three children and other family members are now accompanying his casket to the Palm Springs area.

The interment site at Desert Memorial Park in Cathedral City is where his mother, Natalie "Dolly" Sinatra, and father, Anthony Martin Sinatra, are buried.

Sinatra died last Thursday from heart failure.

He was 82.

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