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    Report: Jobs funeral Friday, ceremony private

    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Wall Street Journal is reporting that the funeral for Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is being held Friday.

    The newspaper cited an unnamed person familiar with the matter. The person described the ceremony as a small private gathering. The person would not say where or when Friday the funeral is taking place.

    Apple would say only that no public funeral services are planned. Apple has invited the public to send memories, thoughts and condolences to rememberingsteve(at)apple.com

    Jobs died Wednesday at 56. The company announced no cause of death, but Jobs had been diagnosed with a rare pancreatic cancer seven years ago and had a liver transplant in 2009.

     

    121 comments

    • Rev. Al Schmuckton  •  7 mths ago
      I hope those those nuts from the Weestboro cult will be kept away from the family.
    • Darrell  •  7 mths ago
      They should make a public statement that it will be held on a crumbling cliff and let the WBC go picket there.
      Or at least a dump....then again I'm sure the WBC is used to worse than garbage with the satanists in their pulpit.
      • Darrell 7 mths ago
        I take that back. They are not satanists they are demons.
      • Das Manatee 7 mths ago
        They are a cult for sure
    • Shlumgullya  •  7 mths ago
      "..........The person would not say where or when Friday the funeral is taking place. Apple would say only that no public funeral services are planned......"

      How will the Westboro Baptist Church protesters know where to go ?
      • Coz 7 mths ago
        Plenty of people to tell them where to go.
    • Tom  •  7 mths ago
      It can't be private. How is the Westboro Baptist Church going to find it?
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Obama already knows and plans a fundraiser...
    • Gina  •  7 mths ago
      The racist and hate-filled pigs at Westboro Baptist Church are going to protest Steve Jobs funeral? There is a special place in Hell for the Westboro Baptist people.
      • A Yahoo! User 7 mths ago
        Jobs was a greedy prick. Apple sold overpriced products mad by Foxconn in China and screwed the American worker to squeeze out a few more bucks by using Chinese sweatshops. No RIP Stevie boy........just an adios and good riddence
      • ministerzel 7 mths ago
        I wouldn't call them pigs, but they certainly are racist and hate-filled. Very confused people. I don't know whether they are that ignorant about scripture or simply misguided and illiterate.
      • juju 7 mths ago
        They are all ONE family, with the exception of ONE. Must be some incest going on somewhere, probably why they're all nuts!!
    • Cody  •  7 mths ago
      This way WBC won't be able to picket.
      • Tom 7 mths ago
        Thats what I thought when I first saw them wanting to attend.
      • byron 7 mths ago
        Screw WBC - such hatred is unneeded and uncalled for. I don't understand how those people can get off saying they promote a religion that is supposed to be about love and respective others.
      • HERETIC WARLORD 7 mths ago
        Byron.this IS religion for those who are willing to look just a little further...the WBC just takes it a step further.....
    • juju  •  7 mths ago
      Ha, ha, Westboro nuts are screwed on this one!
    • jim n  •  7 mths ago
      Ahh poor Westboro Baptist Church got screewed by Jobs holding his funeral before they could break out thier banjos's & come over... I hope they are squalling like little piggies
    • masterd  •  7 mths ago
      They are doing this to keep the westboro babtist nuts away
    • Dona  •  7 mths ago
      Creatives from the ad industry in the 90's know a lot more about loyalty to macs than kids that are texting on their smart phones saying "Steve Who"?
    • Damien  •  7 mths ago
      Good. I was worried that the Westboro Baptist Church would screw up his funeral by showing up. They should make all of our servicemembers' funerals private as well so these crackpots can't do any more damage to the fabric of this country. As if we needed more hatred and division on our own soil....
    • T  •  7 mths ago
      Hate to see Jobs go. One of the few great minds this country's produced. I hope he does something spectacular with some of his wealth. But the old saying rigs so true...A coffin has no pockets. So it begs the question...Is he who collects the most money really the winner??? I think not.
    • Anonymous  •  7 mths ago
      May every Apple device ever owned or operated by a WBC member be rendered permanently inoperative and out of warranty.
    • Trolling Around  •  7 mths ago
      It's in Woodside, CA
    • American  •  7 mths ago
      RIP Steve jobs sorry to see you go, it was way to soon, you will be missed.
    • Shane  •  7 mths ago
      Gotta love Steve Jobs! Creates an Empire out of a garage, people like him that make this country great. Guess the rich arent rich enough to buy health.
    • bill  •  7 mths ago
      For all his notoriety and fame Steve Jobs passed as a hero and truly honorable man,devoted to family and friends.He put everything in it's context and was more than able to avoid the feeding frenzy of the press and survive as a true example of what a man can do if he sticks to his principals.
    • Bobo  •  7 mths ago
      Today is Friday
    • robots  •  7 mths ago
      This is a good move. Now Westboro Bapist can't protest his funeral, or any other nutcase who has no right to be there. This is the way he probably wanted it anyway.
    • Observer  •  7 mths ago
      I always loved the fact that while Apple was wildly, and appropriately, in your face, that Jobs kept his life and family private. So few "big league" people do that. I'm very disappointed by the various online articles outlining the private life he did not want to advertise. There is a vast difference between privacy and "secrecy". He was not someone, unlike an actor or politician, who depended upon press for his success so he did not need to feed them his details. I do not say that as a slam against actors or politicians, it is simply reality.

      That the Jobs family and friends do not need to beg "please respect our privacy at this difficult time" speaks volumes about his respect for his family and friends as he became world-wide known.

      I am not an Apple owner, but I mourn his death as the loss of a true genius (in the true definition of the word) in a world where that concept is cheapened too often and currently non-recognized amongst the mass of flavor-of the-digital month.
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