KALAMA — Christian Brando, the troubled eldest son of the late actor Marlon Brando, has been laid to rest in one of the few places he was said to have felt accepted and at peace.
Brando, 49, who lived and worked as a welder in Kalama from 1997 to about 2004, was buried Sunday at the Kalama Oddfellows Cemetery following an hourlong service attended by about 50 people at Steele Chapel in nearby Longview, chapel director Rick Little said.
He died of undetermined causes Jan. 26 at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. An autopsy has been conducted, but outcome of toxicology and other tests were pending. Relatives have said he died of pneumonia.
His first wife, Mary Brando, and mother, Anna Kashfi, attended the funeral and plan to be buried in the same plot, Little told The Daily News of Longview on Monday.
Brando was convicted of drunken driving in 2000 and was sentenced to drug and alcohol rehabilitation and probation in 2005 after pleading guilty to spousal abuse of his ex-wife Deborah Brando.
His mother wanted him buried in Kalama because it was one of the few places where he felt accepted and appreciated, Little said. She and others in the family said he was thinking of returning to Kalama before he died.
Brando “wanted his privacy and we gave it to him,” Barnes said.
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