Southern rock legend
Gregg Allman
was laid to rest in an intimate funeral in his adopted hometown of Macon, Georgia and veteran
singer
Cher, who was briefly married to the musician, was one of the first to enter Snow's Memorial Chapel.
Cher, who was briefly married to Allman in the '70s and has a son,
Elijah Blue
, with the singer, tweeted, "Gregory's children are AMAZING. We Spent hard day,Then went 2 Gregory house.We reminisced.I'm so proud of em...THEY'RE ALLMANS."
Although the service was only open to family and friends of the Allman Brothers co-founder, fans lined the route between the funeral home and Rose Hill Cemetery in Macon. His funeral procession intentionally passed some of the music venues the southern blues-rocker performed at over the years
The singer was laid to rest next to his brother and band co-founder Duane, who died in 1971 at the age 24 in a motorcycle crash.
Allman, who died at his home in Savannah, Georgia, was diagnosed with hepatitis C in 1999 and underwent a liver transplant in 2010. He died of complications from liver cancer just one month after postponing 2017 concert dates and denying rumours that he was in hospice care.
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