In loss of life, as in life, her well-known former husband loomed over Ivana Trump’s story.

On Wednesday afternoon, when a funeral was held for Ms. Trump at an Higher East Aspect Catholic church, former President Donald J. Trump, alongside together with his present spouse, Melania, was there, seated within the entrance row, throughout from their three youngsters: Ivanka, Eric and Donald Jr.

The Trump Group had dealt with the funeral preparations, and the coffin had a gold hue. The Secret Service stood by.

Exterior the church, St. Vincent Ferrer, photographers and about 100 gawkers stood behind barricades. Maybe the one signal anybody held up stated: “PRAYERS AND CONDOLENCES TRUMP FAMILY. GOD BLESS AND PROTECT YOU.”

Inside, the church was lower than half full. There have been loads of Hermès baggage however few boldfaced names from the gilt-covered slice of Manhattan society the couple had inhabited within the 1980s and 1990s.

A lot of the speeches about Ms. Trump, who died final week at 73 inside her house in New York, targeted on her indefatigable drive, formed by rising up in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain. These eulogizing her additionally talked in regards to the friendship that Ms. Trump and her ex-husband had managed to forge, regardless of the bitter tabloid divorce. (Ms. Trump was married briefly then widowed earlier than her marriage to Mr. Trump, and the 2 husbands who adopted him died earlier than her.)

Her youngsters provided a loving glimpse at her forceful parenting model.

In a speech, her son Eric, 38, described his mom because the embodiment of the American dream, one thing like a mixture of Joan Rivers and Claudia Schiffer, he stated.

“She had brains, she had magnificence, and she or he had grit,” he stated, happening to claim that she had gained the “hearts and minds of each single particular person within the U.S. on the House Procuring Community and QVC.”

He added: “She nonetheless holds each single gross sales file. Folks adored Ivana.”

As a dad or mum, he stated, she “dominated with an iron fist and a coronary heart of gold.”

These two issues have been the topic of a lot of Donald Trump Jr.’s speech, which adopted quickly after.

“Within the tumultuous occasions of the previous couple of years, with all of the assaults we confronted,” Mr. Trump, 44, stated, “she was the primary particular person to name and see if I maybe needed, or perhaps wanted, to maneuver again in along with her. That decision was concurrently the sweetest and most emasculating factor ever. And she or he may try this with the most effective of them, and often it was on function.”

When he was a small youngster, Mr. Trump stated, he went together with his household to the Hamptons. Whereas there, he acted at Gosman’s (Montauk’s best-known seafood spot) in a manner that “exceeded the boundaries” of everybody’s persistence. His mom, he stated, took him to the lavatory and confirmed him “what Japanese European self-discipline was actually all about.”

When it was over, he stated, she advised him, “And in the event you cry, we’re going to come back again in right here and do that once more.”

The youthful Mr. Trump — whose fiancée, the previous Fox Information persona Kimberly Guilfoyle, sat throughout the aisle from him — advised one other story about his sister Ivanka destroying a really expensive chandelier whereas taking part in in the home with a seashore ball. “Ivanka managed to shortly persuade my mom that it was me,” he stated.

That point, the “treatment,” as he put it, was a “wood spoon,” and what made his mom much more irate as she spanked him was his fervent denial of getting performed any function within the misbehavior. “Not solely had I damaged the chandelier, however now I used to be additionally mendacity to her,” he stated.

However by the point she realized he was telling the reality, Mr. Trump stated, she was “too drained to take care of Ivanka.”

Ivanka Trump, 40, additionally spoke. Her mom “hated funerals,” she stated, tearing up as she talked in regards to the “trailblazer, admired by women and men alike” for her “grace and her magnificence,” but in addition her enterprise prowess and relentless work ethic.

She was additionally the kind of mom who teased her daughter for leaving a celebration in St.-Tropez at 1 a.m. (“She had stayed until 4”) and chided her for sporting garments that have been too modest. “My miniskirts weren’t mini sufficient,” she stated. (Ms. Trump wore a black gown and pearls to her mom’s funeral.) Ivana’s motto, her daughter stated, was “flaunt them when you’ve received them.”

“She taught me to check laborious, to work laborious, to comport myself with dignity and good manners and to by no means, ever marry a person with a foul again,” Ms. Trump stated. “It took me years to know the final one.” (Of her daughter’s marriage to Jared Kushner, Ms. Trump stated, her mom had declared that “Ivanka should actually love him if she’s prepared to surrender lobster.”)

“Now, she’s watching us from above, telling us to dry our eyes, have a great time and dance yet one more tune for her,” Ms. Trump stated. “Mother, I really like you right this moment, every single day.”

The gang was Park Avenue and fashion-industry-adjacent, although Whitney Robinson, a former editor of Elle Decor who had change into pleasant with the elder Ms. Trump lately, was within the again and stated he had “no thought” who most people there have been.

However they did embody Paolo Zampolli, the previous modeling agent whom Mr. Trump appointed to the board of trustees on the John F. Kennedy Middle for the Performing Arts; Dennis Basso, the style designer whose high-oomph fur designs Ms. Trump favored; Couri Hay, the publicist and gossip columnist; and Jeanine Pirro, the right-wing newscaster.

Close to the lectern was a poster board of Ms. Trump on the duvet of Self-importance Truthful in 1992, above the headline “Ivana Be a Star.” One of many audio system would later identify all the opposite magazines whose covers she had graced, amongst them City & Nation and Vogue. However Ms. Trump was residing an more and more solitary life in her last years, in accordance with Marc Bouwer, a designer who dressed her for a few years and who was additionally seated towards the again, sporting a black go well with, no shirt and a shiny costume jewellery necklace that he thought Ms. Trump would have appreciated; she was an unapologetic proponent of pairing faux jewellery with super-expensive clothes.

“She had been remoted,” Mr. Bouwer continued, in a short interview on the church. “There was loads of ache, loads of disappointment,” he stated, earlier than declining to elaborate on it.

Dorothy Curry, the previous nanny to Ivanka, Donald Jr. and Eric, was maybe essentially the most hanging speaker. In her two-minute speech, she alluded to that isolation, speaking about how she had been near Ms. Trump by the spring and summer time of her life, after which adopted an autumn and “inevitable winter” of “roses dying” as her former employer’s area of goals turned a “sinking swamp” of “parasites” who had stored her “afloat” with “illicit goals and schemes.”

“Ivana, we’ve got reached out to you a lot, many occasions, however clearly we didn’t attain out far sufficient,” she stated. “All of us mainly let go and let God, and now you’re completely in God’s fingers.”

Mr. Basso, as a substitute, described the nice years. He recalled assembly Ms. Trump in September 1983, when he confirmed his first assortment on the Regency Resort and she or he went backstage afterward to satisfy him.

“She’s standing there in chocolate brown Gucci,” he stated, “and she or he stated: ‘I such as you. You’re cute. You’re chubby, however we are able to repair that.’”

The next day, he stated, she arrived at his showroom for an appointment and walked out with an order for seven items, together with an order to “ship the invoice to the Donald.”

She was, Mr. Basso and others stated, a businesswoman who performed an instrumental function adorning the inns and residential buildings her former husband had labored on, amongst them Trump Tower, the Plaza Resort and the Taj Mahal in Atlantic Metropolis. And when he ran for president, she was a full-throated supporter.

Ms. Trump had shared her ex-husband’s starvation for consideration, and it wasn’t straightforward, others stated in interviews, when her superstar light and his reignited, first with the tv present “The Apprentice” after which when he turned a profitable presidential candidate. The grownup youngsters she had largely raised turned appendages for him.

Practically two hours after the funeral started, pallbearers carried the coffin exterior to a recessional carried out by Christopher Macchio, who additionally sang on the Republican Nationwide Conference when the previous president accepted his celebration’s nomination in 2020. Mr. Trump and his present spouse, Melania, trailed behind the physique, adopted by Ivanka, Eric and Don Jr.

The coffin was positioned in a black hearse bearing the identify of Frank E. Campbell Funeral House, the place of near-rest for a lot of members of New York’s elite. It was headed subsequent to her ex-husband’s golf course in Bedminster, N.J., the place floor was consecrated so Ms. Trump may have a conventional Catholic burial.

It was, in a manner, the previous couple’s last joint real-estate deal.