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MOTHER KATHERINE OVERCOME WITH GRIEF

MICHAEL Jackson's mother was today overcome with grief as she attended the singer's low-key funeral in Los Angeles.

One mourner, who asked not to be named, said Katherine Jackson appeared extremely weary and had to be helped to her car afterwards.

As Jackson's brothers carried his golden coffin from an outdoor seating area into the mausoleum, Mrs Jackson had to turn back.

Inside the great marble building at Forest Lawn, Glendale, Gladys Knight's singing of a hymn moved many to tears.

Jackson's coffin, draped in flowers and with a crown perched on top, had not been put into the vault by the time mourners left.

He joins a long list of famous Americans who ...

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