A gold-colored hearse brought Daniel Smith's body to the cemetery, followed by three white limousines. The mahogany casket was whisked inside a large green tent for the service attended by about 20 people. Wailing and screaming was heard from inside the tent. "The only thing I can tell you is it's going (on) now," Deborah Cartwright of Lakeview Memorial Gardens amp; Mausoleums, the cemetery in Nassau, told The Associated Press. The 38-year-old former Playboy playmate, who gave birth to a daughter three days before her son died Sept. 10 at her hospital bedside, attended the service, said Loretta Butler-Turner, director of the funeral home hired by the family. Baptist Bishop Neil Ellis conducted the service, Butler-Turner said. At least six police officers guarded the main entrance to the cemetery, barring everyone except for invited guests. Other officers in uniform and plain clothes stood outside the tent. A small crowd of onlookers gathered just outside the cemetery. The casket left the funeral home in a van but was transferred en route to the hearse "to honor the wishes for privacy of the family," Butler-Turner said. Daniel Smith died after spending the night at the hospital with his mother and newborn half-sister. An American pathologist hired by Anna Nicole Smith has said he died from a lethal combination of methadone and two antidepressants. Bahamas Chief Magistrate Roger Gomez said Thursday that police had not yet submitted a report on their investigation. Authorities will evaluate that report and the Bahamian pathologist's conclusions to determine whether a jury inquest is necessary. Official toxicology results have not been publicly released. Daniel Smith appeared several times on the E! reality series "The Anna Nicole Show." He was the son of Anna Nicole and Bill Smith, who married in 1985 and divorced two years later. Earlier this month, about 50 family and friends, including Bill Smith, gathered at a church in Mexia, Texas, to mourn Daniel's death. Anna Nicole married Texas oil tycoon J. Howard Marshall II in 1994, when she was 26 and he was 89. He died the following year and she has since been involved in legal disputes over the estate.
Funeral held for Anna Nicole Smith's son in the Bahamas
NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) - Reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith attended her son's funeral Thursday, nearly six weeks after he mysteriously died while visiting her in the hospital where she had given birth to a daughter.
