Farrah Fawcett’s son Redmond O’Neal, currently serving a jail sentence for violating his probation on drug charges, will attend his mother’s memorial service on Tuesday, his attorney tells People.

“That’s an absolute yes,” says William Slattery about plans for the 24-year-old son of Fawcett and Ryan O’Neal to go to the funeral.

O’Neal will be allowed to leave the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic, Calif., where he is enrolled in an inmate treatment program, for the invitation-only ceremony, which will be held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Angels at 4 p.m. PST in downtown Los Angeles.

Fawcett, 62, died after a long battle with cancer on Thursday.

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The angels are in mourning.

“Farrah had courage, she had strength, and she had faith. And now she has peace as she rests with the real angels,” said Jaclyn Smith after the death of her friend and Charlie’s Angels costar Farrah Fawcett.

Cheryl Ladd, who replaced Fawcett on the wildly popular ’70s show, says: “I’m terribly sad about Farrah’s passing. She was incredibly brave, and God will be welcoming her with open arms.”

“I will miss Farrah every day,” says Kate Jackson. “She was a selfless person who loved her family and friends with all her heart, and what a big heart it was. Farrah showed immense courage and grace throughout her illness and was an inspiration to those around her. When I think of Farrah I will remember her kindness, her cutting dry wit and, of course, her beautiful smile.”

Added Jackson, “Today when you think of Farrah remember her smiling, because that is exactly how she wanted to be remembered.”

Fond Remembrances

From pinup, to TV star, to entertainment icon, to hero: Fawcett is being fondly remembered by both Hollywood and the style community.

Playboy publisher Hugh Hefner called Fawcett, who died of cancer at age 62 Thursday morning, the “Marilyn Monroe of the 1970s” whose famous poster “defined what one thinks of as the All-American girl.”

“Men fell in love with her and women wanted to look like her,” says Hefner of his magazine’s cover model. “She had a magic that never went away. She became a part of the pop culture.

Former Husband Mourns

Fawcett’s former husband, Lee Majors, says, “She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever.”

Hairstylist Jose Eber, who created Fawcett’s famous blonde mane, says, “She was blessed with the most amazing hair anybody could have.”

“Her hair had its own personality,” he says. “In my business, doing hair for so long now, very rarely do you see a person who has hair with such perfection. And it was all natural.”

Although Fawcett was known for her beauty and glamour, Robert Duvall, who starred with her in The Apostle, notes that “Farrah had an outstanding talent, better than most feature-film actresses that I’ve seen. She was great to work with and will be missed.”

David Pinksy, an entertainment marketing executive and a longtime friend, says, “It has been a true pleasure to call Farrah my friend for the past 15 years. While we may have met because of who she was, we became friends because of who she is – a good-hearted, funny and generous soul. I will miss her terribly but her spirit lives on inside her son Redmond.”

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After the news of Farrah Fawcett’s death, fans around the world are expressing their grief over losing the actress to cancer. And now her ex-husband, actor Lee Majors, is adding his voice to the others mourning her passing at age 62.

“My wife Faith and I were saddened to hear of Farrah’s passing,” Lee tells Entertainment Tonight. “She fought a tremendous battle against a terrible disease. She was an angel on earth and now an angel forever.”

Farrah and Lee were married in 1972, before separating in 1979. They were formally divorced in 1982, and Farrah went on to become involved with the love of her life, Ryan O’Neal.

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ET has learned that Farrah Fawcett died today at St. John’s Health Center in Los Angeles after a courageous and lengthy battle with anal cancer. She was 62.

The ’70s style icon and “Charlie’s Angels” star was born in Corpus Christi, Texas on February 2, 1947 and attended the University of Texas at Austin. She got her first career break in the late 1960s, appearing in TV commercials and then guest-starring on TV shows such as “I Dream of Jeannie,” “The Flying Nun” and “The Partridge Family.” She also appeared on several episodes of “The Six Million Dollar Man,” starring husband Lee Majors. The couple married in 1973 but separated in 1979, divorcing in 1982. Afterwards, Farrah began a tempestuous, on-and-off relationship with actor Ryan O’Neal, and the pair had a son, Redmond O’Neal, in 1985.

In 1976, Farrah’s celebrity status skyrocketed after she posed in a red bathing suit with a bright smile for an iconic poster that would go on to sell millions of copies, coupled with her debut that fall as Jill Munroe on Aaron Spelling’s “Charlie’s Angels.” Hugely famous, her feathered hairstyle look became an international trendsetter and she even marketed her own shampoo.

After appearing as a regular on “Charlie’s Angels” for only one season, Farrah made a bid to be taken more seriously, starring off-Broadway in ‘Extremities’ and later making a film version which garnered her a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actress. She also was acknowledged with Globe and Emmy nominations for “The Burning Bed” and “Small Sacrifices,” among other serious TV movie projects.

She made her mark on the big screen, starring in such films as ‘Logan’s Run,’ ‘The Cannonball Run,’ ‘Saturn 3,’ ‘Dr. T and the Women,’ ‘Man of the House’ and ‘The Apostle.’ Other TV appearances included the short-lived sitcom “Good Sports” with O’Neal, “Ally McBeal,” “Spin City” and her own reality series, “Chasing Farrah,” culminating in the poignant “Farrah’s Story” this year, documenting her brave battle with cancer.

Reportedly diagnosed with cancer in 2006, Farrah was actively involved in charity work with the Cancer Society and had also campaigned against domestic violence, a theme tied to “The Burning Bed” and ‘Extremities.’

She is survived by her 24-year-old son, Redmond, and her longtime friend and companion, O’Neal.

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UPDATE: At 11:30 p.m. PT last night, Farrah was moved into the Intensive Care Unit.

Only two days after Farrah Fawcett was hospitalized and then released, OK! has learned that the actress is once again under medical supervision as her condition worsens.

Around 9 p.m. PT on Wednesday, Farrah was moved from her West Hollywood home to a nearby hospital. Sources tell OK! that the Charlie’s Angels star’s long-time love, Ryan O’Neal, and her best friend, actress Alana Stewart, have joined her there.

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In an interview set to air Friday night on ABC’s 20/20, Ryan tells host Barbara Walters that he has asked Farrah to be his wife and she had agreed. The two have been together off and on since 1982 and have a son, Redmond O’Neal, though they never walked down the aisle together.

Farrah was first diagnosed with cancer in 2006. In Feb. 2007, after undergoing chemotheraphy and other treatments, she was judged to be cancer-free. However, a new tumor appeared in May 2007 and she once again began treatment.

Neither Farrah’s condition nor reason for hospitalization is known at this point. Stay tuned as information comes in.

One thing Farrah Fawcett would have appreciated during the course of her very public, 2½-year-battle with cancer: privacy. But that is the one thing she never received.

“It’s much easier to go through something and deal with it without being under a microscope,” says the terminally ill star, 62. “It was stressful. I was terrified of getting the chemo. It’s not pleasant. And the radiation is not pleasant.”

Speaking to a reporter for the first time since she was diagnosed with anal cancer in September 2006, the former Charlie’s Angels icon granted Charles Ornstein, formerly of the Los Angeles Times, an interview – one she gave in August and which the newspaper published Monday, in anticipation of Farrah’s Story, a two-hour NBC documentary Fawcett filmed with her friend Alana Stewart. It airs this Friday.

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Her harshest words were saved for the often-exaggerated stories about her illness that were published by a supermarket tabloid, a situation that caused her, she says, to establish a sting operation at the UCLA Medical Center to catch snooping employees who were leaking information about her condition to the publication.

Reacting to a December 2006 story headlined, “Farrah Begs: ‘Let Me Die,’ ” Fawcett, speaking in her home, told the Times: “God, I would never say something like that. To think that people who did look up to me and felt positive because I was going through it too and yet I was strong … it just negated all that.” (more…)

Sad news from Farrah Fawcett’s longtime partner Ryan O’Neal.

The actor recently confirmed that Farrah has lost her trademark tresses and her treatments are nearing the end. Ryan says, “She stays in bed now. The doctors see that she is comfortable. Farrah is on IVs, but some of that is for nourishment. The treatment has pretty much ended.”

Farrah’s family has chosen to keep her son Redmond’s troubles a secret from her, “Farrah doesn’t know Redmond’s in trouble, and Redmond is terrified for his mother. ‘I don’t want to be in jail and have some guard tell me she is gone,’ he said to me. I told him, ‘She’s rebounding.’ I lied to him. I lie to her. It’s the best thing,”

O’Neal, 68, recounts how the cancer spread to other parts of her body, including her liver. Fawcett, 62, will walk viewers through her illness in NBC’s Farrah’s Story, a two-hour documentary she shot with friend Alana Stewart.

Such a sad and tragic situation.

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