In "From Here to the Great Unknown," the late Presley's new memoir, finished by her daughter Riley Keough, the couple wrote that Presley kept her son "in the house with us instead of keeping him in the morgue."
"We were told that if we could take care of the body, we could take it home, so she kept it in our house on dry ice for a while," writes Keow, who used her mother's notes sharing her memories to complete the book. "It was very important for my mother to have enough time to say goodbye to him, as she had done with my father. And I would go and sit there with him."
Presley, the only child of the legendary Elvis Presley, was nine years old when he died after an apparent heart attack at the age of 42 in 1977. The younger Presley died in January 2023 from complications following previous weight-loss surgery at the age of 54.
"There is no law in the state of California that requires someone to be buried immediately. I found a very sympathetic funeral home owner," Presley explains in the book.
Both Presley and her son are now buried in Graceland, where her father is also buried. | BGNES
