Jack White Honored at Private Berlin Funeral as Children Lead Farewell

Overview

• About 70 mourners gathered on November 19 at Berlin’s Grunewaldkirche for a private service.
• His five adult children—Frank, Antonia, Pia, Gloria and Ella—sat together in the front row, while widow Rafaella Nussbaum did not attend with their two young children.
• Pfarrerin Waltraud Friedewald led the ceremony, which featured musical tributes including Katharine Mehrling performing “Straßen von Berlin” and “Over the Rainbow.”
• White is to be interred in an urn grave at the Berliner Straße cemetery in Wilmersdorf.
• Notable attendees included Angelika Milster, Bernie Paul, Enno von Ruffin and Alexandra Kamp, and Promiflash reported that eldest son Frank and third ex-wife Janine White helped organize the funeral.