GERMANY: MOTOR RACING - MICHAEL SCHUMACHER AND HIS BROTHER RALF ATTEND FUNERAL OF THEIR MOTHER ELIZABETH

Record ID: 597155

  • Title: GERMANY: MOTOR RACING - MICHAEL SCHUMACHER AND HIS BROTHER RALF ATTEND FUNERAL OF THEIR MOTHER ELIZABETH
  • Date: 28th April 2003
  • Summary: KERPEN, GERMANY (APRIL 25, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR VIEW OF THE CHURCH 2. NOTICEBOARD OUTSIDE THE CHURCH 3. PRESS TALKING WITH PRIEST BERTHOLD SCHMELZER 4. SOUNDBITE (German) PRIEST SAYING THAT IT WAS A TYPICAL FUNERAL, WITH EVERYONE ACTING AS THEY WOULD WHEN BURYING SOMEONE THEY LOVED A LOT 5. EXTERIOR OF CHURCH BEFORE THE MEMORIAL SERVICE 6. VARIOUS VIEWS INSIDE THE CHURCH Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 13th May 2003 13:00
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  • Location: KERPEN, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA2GLCMBJJAILP1AJNJGOWHP2J4
  • Story Text: Michael Schumacher and his younger brother Ralf
    attended the funeral of their mother Elisabeth, who died last
    weekend.

    The Formula One drivers, both dressed in black, their
    wives and their father Rolf attended a discreet ceremony on
    Friday (April 25) with a few relatives and no public in the
    small western German town of Kerpen, where the brothers grew
    up and honed their skills on the local go-kart track.

    After the funeral ceremony, a memorial service for friends
    and neighbours was held at the church in Kerpen.

    Elisabeth Schumacher had been in coma for some time after
    emergency surgery when she died in a Cologne hospital a few
    hours before Michael's victory in the San Marino Grand Prix.

    German media said she had been suffering from cancer. She was
    55.

    Michael and Ralf, who came fourth at Imola, had paid her a
    final visit on Saturday (April 20) after qualifying first and
    second in the grid.

    After winning on Sunday, Schumacher kept his helmet on to
    hide tears that welled up as he crossed the line.


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