Rolling Stone rocker Ronnie Wood was among the mourners today at the funeral of his first wife, 60’s beauty Krissy Wood, who died of a suspected overdose earlier this month.
The 57 year-old former model, who met Wood in 1964 and married him in 1971 before divoring in 1978, was found slumped on a sofa at a pal’s home west London home. She had taken an overdose of valium hours after telling friends she had hit an all-time low.
The pin-up, who had affairs with George Harrison, John Lennon and Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, had recently split up from her long-term boyfriend and was in the process of selling her flat because she could no longer afford the mortgage.
Wood, 58, had recently slashed Krissy’s maintenance payments and, broke and lonely, she had even resorted to selling some of her former husband’s paintings.
Yesterday more than 150 people attended a humanist funeral in Mortlake Cemetery, south-west London, in celebration of Krissy’s life.
Wood arrived in a black suit and white shirt shortly before 1pm in a black Chrysler people carrier. With him was second wife Jo, in a black dress and who was cited in the 1978 divorce, and their two children, Leah and Jamie.
Jesse Wood, 28, Ronnie’s son by Krissy, arrived separately in a black Mercedes driven behind the hearse containing Krissy’s coffin. He was dressed in a plain black suit, and arrived with his pregnant wife Tilly.
Ronnie’s former Faces bandmate, Rod Stewart, dressed in a black jacket and tie and white shirt and trousers and sunglasses arrived in a white Mercedes with pregnant fiancée Penny Lancaster, who wore a black top and skirt.
Just after 1pm Krissy’s coffin, topped with a large arrangement of white and cream orchids, lilies and roses entered the crematorium carried by four pall bearers for a service led by humanist offical, John Williams.
The simple half-hour ceremony began with the classic Wizard of Oz song ‘Somewhere Over The Rainbow’.
Krissy’s older brother, Eric Findlay, read a prayer entitled ‘A prayer for my little sister’ before the eulogy given by her other older brother, Ian.
In the eulogy, which contained bible verses, Krissy was referred to as a ‘bright star’ and as ‘a gentle, vulnerable and loving spirit who was blown this way and that by life’.
Krissy’s younger brother Brian then read the poem ‘Do not stand at my grave and weep’.
The service continued with Coldplay’s ‘The Scientist’ before Krissy’s son Jesse laid flowers in tribute to his mother.
The service ended with the song ‘Free Fallin’ by Tom Petty.
Afterwards mourners read cards and tributes, including a tribute of white flowers from Rolling Stone band members Mick Jagger and his family, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman
