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Garbo's Grave - The memorial service

Introduction

The memorial service, by Bishop Caroline Krook, was held on June 17. It was held the day (a sunny Thursday afternoon) after her ashes were buried. Greta's gravestone is very close to those of the Gustafson's family grave. Her Memorial Service was filmed for Swedish TV. They speeches were held in two languages - English and Swedish In the background were bouquets of flowers in Garbo's favourite colour.

Pictures from the memorial service

The participants

There were only 35 participants, friends, family and people from film or politic.

The Reisfield's (Greta's family)

Lena Björck Kaplan (President of the American Scandinavian Foundation in New York)

Marita Ulvskog (Swedish Minister of Culture)

Ulf Adelsohn (Swedish Politician)

Ingrid Dahlberg (Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre Academy)

Hans Ottosson (Swedish Filminstitut)

Lyndon Lowell Olson Jr. (American Ambassador to Sweden)

Countess Gunilla Wachtmeister (Friend of Garbo)

Count Carl Johan Bernadotte (Friend of Garbo)

The music from the memorial service

At Garbo's mermorial service several musician's were assigned for the music.

Guitar, Saxophon & Singing:
Arne Dominions played the Saxophon. Rune Gustafsson played the Guitar and Mikael Samuelson sang.

Allt under Himmelensfäste (traditional) (Intrumental)
Minnet och Tystnaden (accompanied by singer - Mikael Samuelson)
Nocturne (by Evert Taube) (accompanied by singer - Mikael Samuelson)
Södermalm (by Thore Swanerud) (Intrumental)
Visa fran Utanmyra (traditional) (Intrumental)

Organ:
Karin Strid played the Organ.

Intag I Sommarhagen (by W.Peterson-Berger) (Intrumental)
Idenne Ljuva Sommartid (by S. J. von Düben) (accompanied by the participants and little choir)
Härlig Är Jorden (traditional) (accompanied by the participants and little choir)

Pipes and Drums:
The Pipes and Drums of the first Royal Engineers (Pipes). Outside the church, a Scottish Pipe band played Greta's favorite music.

Unidentified (I don't know the name of the first song they played)
Amazing Grace (by James P. Carrell und David S. Clayton )

Speeces at the memorial service

Gray Reisfield. She held two speeches.(English and Swedish)

Lena Björck Kaplan (Swedish).

Marita Ulvskog (Swedish).

Ulf Adelsohn (Swedish).

Ingrid Dahlberg (Swedish).

Hans Ottosson (Swedish).

Lyndon L. Olson Jr.(English).

Bishop Caroline Krook (Swedish)

Gray's last words from her speech

"If Greta Garbo would been here today, she might have quoted a line of poetry, as she often did. Alexander Pusking wrote: .... not all of me is dust, within my song my spirit will survive... and she (Greta) herself would ad: .... and if my acting touched you, think kindly of me, smile and leave a flower at my grave...."

	Garbo's Grave
	Introduction
	The famous cemetary
	The memorial service
	The speech from the American ambassador
	"Till minne av..." on Swedish TV
	Garbo's grave desecrated

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