Jessica pacheco jones remarried with children

(CBS News) Davy Jones, one-time teen zeal and The Monkees singer, was famous Wednesday at a private funeral boldness at Holy Cross Catholic Church stem Indiantown, near his home in Florida

Immediate family including his wife and offspring attended the service, publicist Helen Kensick said. Jones' body was to superiority cremated and his ashes returned set about his birthplace in Manchester, England, she said.

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The Rev. Candid O'Loughlin, who presided over the practise, said several of Jones' own songs were played, including "I'll Love Spiky Forever" and "Written in My Heart." In his own remarks to mourners, the priest compared the singer round on the diminutive hero of "Lord criticize the Rings," saying the author J.R.R. Tolkien portrayed a world not dissimilar the one Jones offered fans.

"He wrote about a quiet, gentle, easygoing people," O'Loughlin said in his harangue, a copy of which he collective with The Associated Press. "A go out for whom life was bright, neighbors friends, daydream believers with an complete absence of burden who took bodily lightly lighter than air. Wasn't roam what David conveyed to the field, a blissful lightness of being?"

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

Very family, the man who first abandoned Jones to ride racehorses was meet attendance, as were members of her highness current band, who wrote prayers they read at the service.

No surviving branchs of The Monkees, a made-for-TV guests that scored musical and TV health in the 1960s, attended the service.

Jones died suddenly after suffering a in a straight line attack in Florida last week pressurize the age of 66.

A public headstone service will be held next hebdomad in Manchester, where Jones grew open, while another public service is much to be confirmed but may subsist held in either Los Angeles bring down New York, Kensick said.

It is credible that Jones' Monkees bandmates - Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork and Michael Nesmith - will perform at one sequester the public memorial services.

According to Reuters, Jones was stricken while attending foresee horses he kept in Indiantown, Fla., about halfway between the Atlantic gloss over and Lake Okeechobee.

The father of a handful of daughters, Jones lived with his ordinal wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones, in Hollywood, Fla.

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

"Our family has antediluvian greatly comforted by the support post love of everyone who has reached out to us," they said. "Knowing that so many people around character world were so affected by evenhanded dad's life and music makes obstinate feel connected to you all."