A funeral was held Saturday for actress Valerie Harper. File Photo by Phil McCarten/UPI
Actress Valerie Harper arrives for the Friars Club Roast of Betty White iin New York on May 16, 2012. File Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/UPI
Actress Valerie Harper arrives for the 2010 Tony Awards Meet the Nominees Press Reception at the Millenium Broadway Hotel in New York on May 5, 2010. File Photo by Laura Cavanaugh/UPI
Sept. 8 (UPI) -- A funeral was held this weekend in Los Angeles for Rhoda and The Mary Tyler Moore Show actress Valerie Harper.
Director James L. Brooks, and actors Elliott Gould, Frances Fisher, Connie Stevens and Joely Fisher were among the mourners at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Saturday, ETOnline reported.
Attendees at the intimate, emotional service were instructed to wear colors -- not black -- to celebrate Harper's career.
People.com said Harper's daughter, Cristina Cacciotti, delivered a eulogy where she quoted Harper as saying during her cancer battle, "I don't have balls, I have steel ovaries."
The Dancing with the Stars competitor died on Aug. 30 after a decade-long fight for her life. She was 80.