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Family, friends gather at private funeral for Gordon Lightfoot in his hometown
ORILLIA, Ont. — Close friends and family of Gordon Lightfoot came together for a small, private funeral on Monday held at the Orillia, Ont. church where he was once a choir boy.
A group of roughly 50 people assembled inside St. Paul’s United Church for the nearly two-hour ceremony that included a choir performance.
Outside, the local community went about the day as any other, with some doing yard work and a few curious onlookers wandering past the church to see what was happening.
A curious onlooker set up a lawn chair outside his house to see if Canadian rock royalty the likes of Joni Mitchell and Neil Young might show up.