Nixon, Elizabeth Taylor and Iacocca Attend Forbes Rites
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NEW YORK — Former President Richard M. Nixon, actress Elizabeth Taylor, Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee A. Iacocca and hundreds of other mourners filled St. Bartholomew’s Episcopal Church today for a memorial service for publisher Malcolm Forbes.
Forbes died Saturday after a heart attack at his estate in Far Hills, N.J. He was 70.
The service featured music on a variety of instruments loved by the Forbes magazine owner, including Scottish bagpipes and English horns.
Nixon sat in the front pew of the landmark Park Avenue church, near his daughter Tricia Cox, Taylor and former Mayor Edward I. Koch.
Other mourners included Barbara Walters, Joan Rivers and David Rockefeller.
“Remember that you are but dust, and unto dust you shall return,” the Rev. Thomas Bowers, pastor of St. Bartholomew’s, said in his homily.
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