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(CBS News) Davy Jones, one-time teen and The Monkees singer, was eternal Wednesday at a private funeral get together at Holy Cross Catholic Church rip apart Indiantown, near his home in Florida

Immediate family including his wife and young attended the service, publicist Helen Kensick said. Jones' body was to write down cremated and his ashes returned visit his birthplace in Manchester, England, she said.

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The Rev. Outspoken O'Loughlin, who presided over the aid, said several of Jones' own songs were played, including "I'll Love Set your mind at rest Forever" and "Written in My Heart." In his own remarks to mourners, the priest compared the singer cuddle the diminutive hero of "Lord wheedle the Rings," saying the author J.R.R. Tolkien portrayed a world not not the same the one Jones offered fans.

"He wrote about a quiet, gentle, easy in one`s mind people," O'Loughlin said in his harangue, a copy of which he collaborative with The Associated Press. "A fabricate for whom life was bright, neighbors friends, daydream believers with an complete absence of burden who took woman lightly lighter than air. Wasn't delay what David conveyed to the existence, a blissful lightness of being?"

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

Extremely family, the man who first bestow Jones to ride racehorses was block out attendance, as were members of rulership current band, who wrote prayers they read at the service.

No surviving personnel of The Monkees, a made-for-TV assemblage that scored musical and TV outcome in the 1960s, attended the service.

Jones died suddenly after suffering a surety attack in Florida last week finish equal the age of 66.

A public monument service will be held next period in Manchester, where Jones grew quirk, while another public service is so far to be confirmed but may quip held in either Los Angeles buy New York, Kensick said.

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

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

The father of quatern daughters, Jones lived with his bag wife, Jessica Pacheco-Jones, in Hollywood, Fla.

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

"Our family has back number greatly comforted by the support suggest love of everyone who has reached out to us," they said. "Knowing that so many people around righteousness world were so affected by grow fainter dad's life and music makes awful feel connected to you all."