Lisa Marie Presley‘s final resting place is being prepared at Graceland in Memphis, Tenn. for her upcoming public memorial on Sunday, Jan. 22. In pictures and a video obtained by the Daily Mail that can be viewed here, workers can be seen on their hand and knees digging a grave and preparing for the arrival of the late daughter of rock legend Elvis Presley, who will be buried next to her late son, Benjamin Keough. Other footage shows dozens of orange construction cones scattered around the area and flowers left by fans at Elvis’ former home’s front gate, according to a report on www.hollywoodlife.com.
Lisa’s grave is located in a spot next to Graceland’s backyard fountain and almost directly across from where her father is buried. Several other members of the Presley family are buried at Graceland, including Elvis’ father, Vernon, mother, Gladys, and his grandmother, Minnie Mae. Elvis’ grave can be seen below. There is also a memorial stone for Elvis’ twin brother, who died at birth in 1935, at the family graveyard.
As fans know, Lisa died unexpectedly at the age of 54 on Thursday, Jan. 12 after suffering cardiac arrest. This came just days after she got emotional watching Austin Butler, 31, accept his first-ever Golden Globe for portraying Elvis Presley in 2022’s biopic, Elvis, at the 80th Annual Golden Globe Awards. She also made headlines that night for crashing Austin’s red carpet interview with Entertainment Tonight and raving about Austin’s performance. “I really didn’t know what to do with myself after I saw [the movie],” she recalled. “I had to take, like, five days to process it because it was so incredible and so spot on and just so authentic that, yeah, I can’t even describe what it meant.”
Prior to that, however, she was reportedly in great spirits at the Formosa Cafe in West Hollywood, Calif. with her daughter, Riley Keough, 33, Austin, and the director of Elvis, Baz Luhrmann, to celebrate what would have been Elvis’ 88th birthday. “They were really adorable together. They were side by side the entire night,” Bobby Green, the owner of the cafe, told PEOPLE on Jan. 14. “And of course, I think they had things to do that night.
They had to sit in the Elvis booth together, and they had to get pictures, but they seemed to really genuinely enjoy it…. They seemed very happy.”
