Tom Petty’s Daughter Shared Emotional Photos From The Singer’s Private Funeral

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This is very hard for me💜

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The funeral of legendary rocker Tom Petty was held on Monday, at the Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine in Pacific Palisades, California (the same place where Petty’s Traveling Wilburys bandmate George Harrison was memorialized in 2001). The grounds were closed for Petty’s private ceremony, and his daughter AnnaKim Violette Petty, has posted some photos of the facility and the emotional proceedings on Instagram.

Details about the private ceremony have been scarce, although one of Petty’s photos reveals that there were concert tee-style shirts the feature an illustration of the singer with the phrase “nil desperandum,” which is Latin for “do not despair” or “never despair.”

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Who gets a ringer t shirt at a funeral

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She also shared pictures of Petty photos, floral arrangements, and the Golden Lotus Archway, which is part of the Mahatma Gandhi World Peace Memorial, an outdoor shrine that holds a 1,000-year-old Chinese stone sarcophagus containing some of Gandhi’s ashes.

“This is very hard for me,” Petty captioned a post of herself posing with a photo of her father. In various other posts featuring flowers and her family, she wrote inspirational messages like, “The dark of the sun we will stand together,” “You belong somewhere you feel free,” and “We care about each other and love our bad ass father.”

Find the photos from Petty’s funeral above and below.

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Dark shadows💜

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Into the great wide open⚡️

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You belong somewhere you feel free

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The dark of the sun we will stand together💜

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We care about each other and love our bad ass father💜

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💛⚡️🇺🇸

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Celebrate life💜

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