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According to the New York Post and blabbermouth.net, Ace Frehley‘s longtime manager John Ostrosky revealed that the late KISS star was buried in the Bronx, New York’s Woodlawn Cemetery. Following a private funeral service at Sinatra funeral Home in Yonkers, New York, on Tuesday, October 21, the 74-year-old musician was laid to rest on Wednesday, October 22. In a social media post, SiriusXM broadcaster Eddie Trunk disclosed that he was among the “small group of family and close friends” that attended both services. These individuals included Frehley‘s fellow original KISS members Paul Stanley, Gene Simmons, and Peter Criss.
We would like to thank Frank Sinatra Jr., Joseph Vivona and the entire staff at Sinatra Memorial Home, as well as Yonkers Mayor Mike Spano, Police Commissioner Christopher Sapienza, Chief Richard Alaimo, as well as the supervisors, officers, and especially the Traffic Division for a safe escort to Woodlawn. Ace would have loved that! – John Ostrosky
Ace Frehley was laid to rest in a cemetery in the Bronx, New York — of course, where he grew up, very close to where his parents were buried, which were his wishes. – Eddie Trunk
About 75 individuals, “mostly musicians who had played with Ace [or] recorded with him,” attended Tuesday’s private service in Yonkers, where Frehley lived in the 1980s, according to Tampa Bay Music News. On October 16, Frehley, whose true name was Paul Daniel Frehley, died quietly in Morristown, New Jersey, surrounded by his loved ones. After suffering a second fall at home and being put on life support due to a brain hemorrhage, he allegedly passed away almost two weeks later. Sadly, the musician’s family decided to remove him from the ventilator.
TMZ was informed by a Morris County Medical Examiner’s office representative that Frehley did not undergo an autopsy. There’s an external body inspection and a toxicological screening going on. A cause of death will be determined in the upcoming weeks, according to the medical examiner’s office.
