Elizabeth Edward's daughter revealed to her dying mother that she had got engaged to her longtime sweetheart in the days before she was told further treatment was futile, it has been revealed.
Cate Edwards got engaged to Trevor Upham over the Thanksgiving weekend after spending the holiday at the family's home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, People reported.
It comes after disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards was left off the list of speakers at his wife’s funeral in North Carolina today.
The couple met as students at Princeton University and Mr Upham, a physician, would often help Elizabeth Edwards understand the medical information she was receiving from her oncologist.
It was not clear today whether the ex-senator chose not to give an eulogy or whether Elizabeth Edwards left directions that he should not take part in the memorial service.
The funeral will be open to the public and mourning relatives said it will be a celebration of the life of the 61-year-old who succumbed to breast cancer on Tuesday after a six-year battle with the disease.
Two close friends and the Edwards’ 28-year-old law graduate daughter will pay tribute at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, this afternoon.
The service will be at the same church where the funeral was held for the Edwards’ son, Wade, who died fourteen years ago in a car accident when he was just sixteen.
Mrs Edwards will be buried right next to her son’s grave, a place she visited every day for years after his death.
She famously stood by her husband and supported his bid for the White House even though she was diagnosed with a terminal tumour.
But after months of speculation over his infidelity, she split from Mr Edwards in January after learning he had fathered a child with a former campaign worker, Rielle Hunter.
Daughter Cate also spoke at her brother’s funeral when she was fourteen.
‘Cate’s been through so much, losing her brother and now her mum. But she’s very strong and has so much of her mother in her,’ family friend Jennifer Palmieri told CBS.
Mr Edwards will raise the two younger children, Emma, 12, and Jack, 10.
“It was very important to Elizabeth that the father of her children be in good shape and that he be able to carry on and live a good life and live a good life for Jack and Emma. She felt good about that,’ added the friend.
A Kansas-based church has said it plans to picket the funeral because it says Mrs Edwards didn’t praise God enough during her cancer battle.
The Westboro Baptist Church has been roundly denounced over the sick publicity stunt.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
Cate Edwards got engaged to Trevor Upham over the Thanksgiving weekend after spending the holiday at the family's home in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, People reported.
It comes after disgraced former presidential candidate John Edwards was left off the list of speakers at his wife’s funeral in North Carolina today.
Brace: Elizabeth's daughter Cate, shown here with her mother in 2004 in Boston, will speak - just as she did at her brother Wade's funeral when she was just 14
It was not clear today whether the ex-senator chose not to give an eulogy or whether Elizabeth Edwards left directions that he should not take part in the memorial service.
The funeral will be open to the public and mourning relatives said it will be a celebration of the life of the 61-year-old who succumbed to breast cancer on Tuesday after a six-year battle with the disease.
Two close friends and the Edwards’ 28-year-old law graduate daughter will pay tribute at the Edenton Street United Methodist Church in Raleigh, North Carolina, this afternoon.
The service will be at the same church where the funeral was held for the Edwards’ son, Wade, who died fourteen years ago in a car accident when he was just sixteen.
Mrs Edwards will be buried right next to her son’s grave, a place she visited every day for years after his death.
She famously stood by her husband and supported his bid for the White House even though she was diagnosed with a terminal tumour.
Sound of silence: John Edwards, pictured here with wife Elizabeth in Iowa in 2007, is not to speak at her funeral today
Daughter Cate also spoke at her brother’s funeral when she was fourteen.
‘Cate’s been through so much, losing her brother and now her mum. But she’s very strong and has so much of her mother in her,’ family friend Jennifer Palmieri told CBS.
Mr Edwards will raise the two younger children, Emma, 12, and Jack, 10.
“It was very important to Elizabeth that the father of her children be in good shape and that he be able to carry on and live a good life and live a good life for Jack and Emma. She felt good about that,’ added the friend.
A Kansas-based church has said it plans to picket the funeral because it says Mrs Edwards didn’t praise God enough during her cancer battle.
The Westboro Baptist Church has been roundly denounced over the sick publicity stunt.
source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk
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