Celebrity A-List to Attend Astor Funeral

WNYC News | Jul 12, 2010

New York, NY —

An A-list of movers and shakers will convene on Friday to say goodbye to socialite and philanthropist Brooke Astor.

Guests invited to her funeral at Saint Thomas Episcopal Church on Fifth Avenue include Martha Stewart, Harry Belafonte, Renee Fleming, Whoopi Goldberg, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg, Nancy Reagan and former President George Bush and his wife, Barbara.

Astor died of pneumonia Monday night at 105 and is to be buried in a cemetery in Sleepy Hollow, near her estate overlooking the Hudson River. In her will, Astor wrote the epitaph to be inscribed on her tombstone: "I had a wonderful life."

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