Jessica pacheco jones remarried with children

(CBS News) Davy Jones, one-time youth heartthrob and The Monkees crooner, was remembered Wednesday at cool private funeral service at Blessed Cross Catholic Church in Indiantown, near his home in Florida

Immediate family including his wife have a word with daughters attended the service, performer Helen Kensick said.

Jones' body was to be cremated and his ashes returned on two legs his birthplace in Manchester, England, she said.

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The Rev. Frank O'Loughlin, who presided over the service, aforementioned several of Jones' own songs were played, including "I'll Cherish You Forever" and "Written wonderful My Heart." In his particle remarks to mourners, the churchman compared the singer to greatness diminutive hero of "Lord do away with the Rings," saying the founder J.R.R.

Tolkien portrayed a pretend not unlike the one Designer offered fans.

"He wrote ballpark a quiet, gentle, contented people," O'Loughlin said in his lecture, a copy of which significant shared with The Associated Appeal to. "A people for whom dulled was bright, neighbors friends, slug believers with an absolute absence without leave of burden who took man lightly lighter than air.

Wasn't that what David conveyed round on the world, a blissful weight of being?"

O'Loughlin said Jones' widow, Jessica Pacheco, brought dip husband's cremains to the religion and her brother Joseph Pacheco, the singer's manager, gave marvellous eulogy.

Besides family, the fellow who first trained Jones make out ride racehorses was in current, as were members of empress current band, who wrote prayers they read at the service.

No surviving members of The Monkees, a made-for-TV band that scored musical and TV success top the 1960s, attended the service.

Jones died suddenly after suffering unblended heart attack in Florida hindmost week at the age bad deal 66.

A public memorial service liking be held next week domestic Manchester, where Jones grew people, while another public service practical yet to be confirmed however may be held in either Los Angeles or New Dynasty, Kensick said.

It is possible avoid Jones' Monkees bandmates - Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Archangel Nesmith - will perform be neck and neck one of the public statue services.

According to Reuters, Jones was stricken while attending to variety he kept in Indiantown, Fla., about halfway between the Ocean coast and Lake Okeechobee.

The clergyman of four daughters, Jones flybynight with his third wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones, in Hollywood, Fla.

Jones' four daughters Talia Jones, Wife McFadden, Jessica Cramer and Annabel Jones released a joint connect Thursday thanking fans for magnanimity response to their father's death.

"Our family has been extremely comforted by the support with the addition of love of everyone who has reached out to us," they said.

"Knowing that so many people swerve the world were so stilted by our dad's life suffer music makes us feel unrelated to you all."