Anna Nicole Smith's Funeral Goes Ahead, Despite Last Ditch Court Battle. - page 2

03-03-2007 08:01

Billy's attorney Kara Butler says in court papers, "We have been instructed and hereby formally request permission to have the remains of Daniel Wayne Smith (deceased) exhumed from its current location here in the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and be transferred where his father and family resides in the state of Texas."

The development could have affected the funeral of Anna Nicole, which is scheduled to take place at Lakeview Memorial Gardens & Mausoleums on Nassau later today (02Mar07). Anna Nicole's body has left a Florida morgue in preparation for flight to Bahamas in the last few hours.

In a seperate appeal Anna Nicole's estranged mother Virgie Arthur also attempted to delay the service.

Arthur lost a legal battle with Anna Nicole's partner Howard K. Stern to bury her daughter in Texas, but the lawyer insisted she would have wanted to be buried next to her son in the Bahamas.

Anna Nicole was found death in a Florida hotel room last month (Feb07), just five months after the death of Daniel, who was killed by an accidental overdose of prescription drugs.