Ryan O’Neal’s son Patrick has revealed that he’s planning a memorial service in honor of his late father in January saying, “Everyone who should be there will be there” — days after his siblings said they weren’t invited to the funeral service.
The beloved actor died on Dec. 8 at age 82.
“I am in the process of planning my dad’s memorial and celebration of life for late January and everyone who should be there will be there and it will be amazing, trust me,” Patrick wrote on Instagram alongside a photo of himself holding up a black and white image of his late father.
“This will be a tribute to the man, his family, his love of boxing, and his legendary career as an actor. I have my work cut out for me because Ryan took about 3 million photos and saved 700 thousand of them 🥺.”
“1. Don’t believe everything you read. 2. Consider the source. C. myob,” he concluded the post.
The 56-year-old sportscaster this month confirmed the news that his father had died, saying the “Paper Moon” actor “passed away peacefully” with his “loving team by his side supporting him and loving him as he would us.”
“The best and most loving and supportive dad, and I am just so lucky to have had him,” he wrote, in part. “We loved playing/watching sports together. Some great frisbee throws on the beach that would last all weekend long. For years. That was our bond.”
According to his death certificate, the prolific, Oscar-nominated actor for his role in 1970’s “Love Story” and two-time Golden Globe nominee, died of “congestive heart failure” after suffering from “cardiomyopathy” for years.
As for his final resting place, according to the document, O’Neal was buried alongside longtime love Farrah Fawcett at the Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park and Mortuary in Los Angeles.
Three out of O’Neal’s four children were absent from the memorial service, which Patrick O’Neal had organized.
Griffen O’Neal told the Post that he wasn’t invited to the ceremony neither was Tatum, 60, and their half-brother Redmond, 38, who is incarcerated at a state hospital in California.
In addition to Patrick, O’Neal is survived by his daughter Tatum O’Neal, 50, and son Griffin O’Neal, 59, whom he shared with his first wife, Joanna Moore and five grandchildren.