It was one week ago today that actress Natasha Richardson took her fatal spill on a ski slope in Canada, though originally feeling okay from the fall, she ultimately died of a blunt impact to the head last Wednesday after being transported to Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City.
The NY Times now reports on the final farewell, which took place yesterday 80 miles north of here in Upstate New York, where she and her family had a home. Liam Neeson was one of the six pallbearers, where he carried his wife's coffin into the same church they were married at in 1994, St. Peter's Episcopal. Those in attendance included the couple's two sons, Richardson's mother Vanessa Redgrave, her sister Joely Richardson, Ralph Fiennes, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney, Uma Thurman and Timothy Dalton.
Her grave sits near that of her maternal grandmother, actress Rachel Kempson, who the Times reports died while visiting Richardson and Neeson in 2003. On Friday a private viewing took place at the American Irish Historical Society, where Diane Sawyer, Ethan Hawke and Sarah Jessica Parker were amongst those who came to pay their respects.
And while the press has been uninvited guests to each grieving moment, even filming the coffin being carried into the church, the family has graciously taken time to wave to the cameras throughout their difficult week.
