Debbie Reynolds and Carrie Fisher to Be Buried Together
Todd Fisher said his mother Debbie Reynolds "didn't want to leave Carrie and did not want her to be alone"
By Anthony McCartney ••
Debbie Reynolds' son said Friday his mother and sister, actress Carrie Fisher, will have a joint funeral and will be buried together.
Todd Fisher said the actresses will be interred at Forest Lawn-Hollywood Hills, the final resting place of numerous celebrities, including Lucille Ball, Dick Van Patten, Liberace, Florence Henderson, David Carradine and Bette Davis.
The son said no date for the funeral has been set, but it will be private. A public memorial is being contemplated, but no plans have been finalized.
Earlier Friday, the Los Angeles coroner's office released Carrie Fisher's body to her family. Chief of Operations Brian Elias says an examination of Fisher was done, but he stopped short of calling it an autopsy and would not provide any details on what tests were done.
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Debbie Reynolds publicity portrait for the film 'The Unsinkable Molly Brown', 1964. (Photo by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/Getty Images)
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Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds pose for Reynolds' breakout film "Singin' In The Rain" in 1952.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds holds daughter Carrie Fisher, right, next to husband Eddie Fisher with son Todd in this 1958 family portrait.
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Debbie Reynolds ropes Tony Randall in as Paul Douglas watches in a scene from the 1959 film "The Mating Game".
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Actress Debbie Reynolds is poses for a 1960 portrait, eight years after her breakthrough role as Kathy Selden in "Singin' in the Rain"
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Debbie Reynolds arrives at LaGuardia Airport to promote the 1964 film, "The Unsinkable Molly Brown'.
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Debbie Reynolds pose for a portrait to promote her 1964 "The Unsinkable Molly Brown".
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Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell gape in amazement when they see a mountain of gold right in their own backyard in a scene from the 1964 film "The Unsinkable Molly Brown".
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Debbie Reynolds and Harve Presnell pose together in a publicity portrait for the 1964 film "The Unsinkable Molly Brown".
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Actress Debbie Reynolds and her second husband Harry Karl is pictured aboard the Queen Elizabeth liner as they arrive at Southampton, Oct. 13, 1964.
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Donald O''Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Marvin Hamlisch and Cher pose together April 3, 1974 at the 46th Annual Academy Awards inside the Los Angeles Music Center in Los Angeles, California. Hamlisch won Oscars for ''The Way We Were'' and 'The Sting''.
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Debbie Reynolds guest star in "Love Boat" on Nov. 1, 1980, with show captain Gavin McLeod, right.
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Debbie Reynolds, left, Rue McClanahan, center, and Betty White, right, is seen on the set of "Golden Girls".
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Actress Debbie Reynolds poses for a portrait in 1988 in Los Angeles, California.
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Debbie Reynolds plays Amanda Cody in an 1989 episode of "Perry Mason: The Case Of The Musical Murder".
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Actresses Debbie Reynolds, Whoopi Goldberg and Ruta Lee attend 36th Annual Thalians Ball on Oct. 26, 1991 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Century City, California.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds chats with host Jay Leno during an interview on Jan. 1, 1997.
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Debra Messing as Grace Adler, Debbie Reynolds as Bobbie Adler, Sean Hayes as Jack McFarland and Megan Mullally as Karen Walker pose for an NBC promotional portrait for an 1999 episode of NBC sitcom Will & Grace, "Who's Mom Is It Anyways?".
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Actress Debbie Reynolds pose in front of her hand prints at the 'Hollywood Chamber of Commerce 82nd Annual Meeting & Lifetime Achievement Luncheon Honoring Debbie Reynolds' at the Renaissance Hollywood Hotel on March 26, 2003 in Century City, California.
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Debbie Reynolds at the WOMEN ROCK! Songs from the Movies on Oct. 1, 2003.
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Actress Carrie Fisher, left, and her mother, actress Debbie Reynolds, arrive for Dame Elizabeth Taylor's 75th birthday party at the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Las Vegas on Feb. 27, 2007 in Henderson, Nevada.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds performs with actress Ruta Lee as they sing "Bosom Buddies" during the Thalians' 52nd Anniversary Gala honoring Sir Roger Moore to raise funds for the Thalians Mental Health Center at Cedars Sinai Hospital held at The Beverly Hilton Hotel on Oct. 21, 2007, in Beverly Hills, California.
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Celebrity guest Debbie Reynolds gives RuPaul a hug during the taping of their episode together on RuPaul's Drag Race in Culver City, July 31, 2009. The television show's host, drag queen RuPaul, mentors then judges a set of young drag performers during several competitions in their quest to become the ultimate drag queen.
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Actress and author Carrie Fisher, her mother Debbie Reynolds and Fisher's daughter Billie Lourd arrive at The Paley Center For Media for the Debbie Reynolds' Hollywood Memorabilia Exhibit Reception on June 7, 2011 in Beverly Hills, California.
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Florence Henderson and Debbie Reynolds arrive at The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills, California on August 16, 2011.
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Debbie Reynolds stands with dresses worn by Berre Davis, right, and Joan Collins, left on June 7, 2011. Reynolds, an avid collector of movie memorabilia, is looking to auction off her massive collection from classic movies.
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Kathie Lee Gifford, Debbie Reynolds and Hoda Kotb appear on NBC News' "Today" show on Jan. 23, 2012.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds arrives at the 2012 TCM Classic Film Festival Opening Night Gala held at Grauman's Chinese Theatre on April 12, 2012 in Hollywood, California.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds attends the 18th annual Los Angeles Times Festival Of Books at USC on April 20, 2013 in Los Angeles, California.
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Actress Debbie Reynolds, left, accepts the Life Achievement Award from daughter and actress Carrie Fisher onstage at the 21st Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards at The Shrine Auditorium on Jan. 25, 2015 in Los Angeles, California.
Elias said there was no timetable for when an official determination on what killed Fisher would be made.
Todd Fisher said the family wasn't clear on what coroner's officials had done during the examination, but was glad his sister's body had been released to Forest Lawn. "My mother and my sister are together right now," he said.
Carrie Fisher, 60, an actress and writer who starred as Princess Leia in the original "Star Wars" trilogy, died Tuesday after suffering a medical emergency Dec. 23 aboard a flight from London. Reynolds, 84, an Oscar-nominated actress who shot to fame after starring in "Singin' in the Rain" at age 19, passed away Wednesday after being briefly hospitalized.
"She said, 'I want to be with Carrie,'" Todd Fisher told The Associated Press. "And then she was gone."
In an ABC News interview that was to air Friday, Todd Fisher said that his mother joined his sister in death because Reynolds "didn't want to leave Carrie and did not want her to be alone."
"She didn't die of a broken heart," Fisher said in the "20/20" interview. "She just left to be with Carrie."
Reynolds wasn't inconsolable over her daughter's death, he said, and instead simply expressed love for her.
