Funeral Of Steve Jobs Was A Private Affair

By Park Sae-jin Posted : October 18, 2011, 09:28 Updated : October 18, 2011, 09:28
The funeral of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs was a small but well-attended affair, according to news reports. Mourners said goodbye to Jobs, who was famously private about his personal life, at a gathering Sunday night on the campus of Stanford University.

According to the New York Times, attendees included Bill Clinton, Microsoft co-founder and Jobs’s long-time business rival Bill Gates and singer Joan Baez, who once dated Jobs.

Others, the report said, included Oracle CEO Larry Ellison, Dell CEO Michael Dell and Pixar’s John Lasseter. Google chief executive Larry Page, former vice president and Apple board member Al Gore, and News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch. Actor Tim Allen was also reportedly among the attendees, as was FCC chair Julius Genachowski.

The event came a little more than a week after a small gathering for Jobs’s family and close friends. Sunday’s event was held at the university’s Memorial Church, and included a reception.

Apple will hold its own memorial service for Jobs on Wednesday.

There was even government recognition as California Governor Jerry Brown declared Sunday to be “Steve Jobs Day” in the state of California. “His innovations transformed an industry, and the products he conceived and shepherded to market have changed the way the entire world communicates. Steve Jobs embodied the California dream,” Brown said.


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