Five of B.B. King’s adult children visited the blues great one last time in private at a Las Vegas funeral home that will host a public viewing Friday ahead of a Saturday memorial service.
They said the King of the Blues was dressed in a signature purple and gold brocade jacket with black lapels. It wasn’t one of his most ornate.
But some among the group – daughters Karen Williams, Patty King, Rita Washington and Barbara King Winfree, and son Willie King – told The Associated Press Thursday that they didn’t think their father looked like himself.
Williams and Patty King accused King’s longtime business agent, LaVerne Toney, of keeping them from seeing their father for a week after he died May 14 at home at age 89 – and of preventing them from taking photos of him in his casket.
“A picture paints 1,000 words,” Patty King said as she showed cellphone images of the same family group with their father at his birthday in September. “He loved his children.”
The five family members refer to themselves as a family board. B.B. King is survived by eleven of his 15 children.
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