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When Elliott Yamin addressed the crowd at his mother's funeral a few hours ago, he summarized her legacy perfectly.

Whenever he's walking down the street and a stranger approaches, he said, they usually have two questions. The second one is, is Simon really that much of a jerk? But the first is, how is your mother doing?

In an emotional ceremony at Bliley's-Central, Elliott and his brother Scott spoke to the 150 or so people gathered to remember Claudette's humor, her warmth and her honesty.

Both sons recounted, with tearful smiles, how much their mother loved the attention she received as a result of Elliott's rise on "American Idol."

In fact, we-Melissa and Cynthia-ordinarily wouldn't have considered recounting what happened at a private funeral. But, as Elliott said, his mother used to read the obituaries first thing every day. So it almost made him chuckle when he opened the paper and saw a tribute to Claudette.

Scott mentioned that he used to get annoyed when his mother would answer cell phone calls from his brother's fans, but realized today that they weren't just fans of Elliott's-they were fans of Claudette, too. He also read aloud several of the condolence postings from http://www.inRich.com as proof of the affection many people had for Claudette-even those who never knew her. "

http://www.mytimesdispatch.com/index.php/popculture

From Richmond Newspaper about Claudette's funeral today. Ace Young was there. He's really a sweet man.