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Mar 23, 2009 · Sun 22 Mar 2009 20.01 EDT. Natasha Richardson was laid to rest at a private funeral service yesterday in upstate New York, where friends and family gathered to say a final farewell to the...
- Angela Balakrishnan
Mar 17, 2009 · March 17, 2009, 5:14 AM. March 22, 2009 -- Almost a week after her tragic accident on a Canadian ski slope, friends and family are bidding a final farewell to Natasha Richardson today at a private funeral service in New York's Hudson Valley.
- Richardson Initially Declined Medical Assistance
- More Time Was Lost as She Was Taken to Two Hospitals
- Her Husband Found Her Brain-Dead Upon Arriving at Her Side
- Neeson and Their Children Drew Inspiration from Her Memory
At around noon, Richardson was on the hill with an instructor and nearing the bottom of a beginners' trail when she toppled over; her head, free from the confinement and protection of a helmet, banged against the still hard-packed snow. Richardson shrugged off the spill, but her wary instructor sought a second opinion from the ski patrol, who subse...
Back in her room, Richardson initially showed no ill effects from the incident. She even made light of it in a phone call to her husband, in Toronto to shoot a film, relaying the news with a casual, "Oh, darling. I've taken a tumble in the snow." But anxiety levels climbed as the actress began complaining of a headache and showing signs of confusio...
By that point, Neeson had already received word that his wife was in serious trouble and quickly left the Toronto production. As the actor described to Esquirein 2011, he arrived at this forbidding "Dickensian" hospital, only to find that no one recognized him, or had any intention of letting him past the emergency room. Wandering outside, Neeson c...
Richardson's absence still felt unreal to Neeson by early 2014, when he confessedto Cooper that he sometimes expected his wife to walk through the door. Still, he had healed enough to gain some perspective, noting that she was "keeping three people alive" through the donation of her organs. Their children also managed to move on from the devastatin...
On 22 March 2009, a private funeral was held at St. Peter's Episcopal Church near Millbrook, New York, close to the family's upstate home. Richardson was buried near her maternal grandmother Rachel Kempson in the churchyard. Richardson's aunt, Lynn Redgrave, was buried in the same churchyard on 8 May 2010, near Richardson and Kempson.
The 45-year-old actress was buried in a nearby cemetery, amid hilly horse farms about 128 kilometres north of New York City. Richardson died last week in a Manhattan hospital after falling while skiing Monday at the Mont Tremblant resort in the Canadian province of Quebec.
Mar 22, 2009 · Updated 11:53, 28 Jan 2012. |. Bookmark. Friends and family of Natasha Richardson today said a sad farewell to the actress at a private funeral service in upstate New York. The ceremony took...
