To the friends, family, neighbors and strangers at her funeral, Audrey Hepburn was remembered for her warmth.
"She believed love could heal, fix, mend and make everthing fine and good in the end. And it did," said her 32-year-old son, Sean Ferrer.About 120 friends and family members attended the Sunday funeral in the Lake Geneva village where Hepburn had lived since 1966.
About 500 others, mostly admirers from the area, gathered outside the Reformed Evangelical church and listened to the service on loudspeakers.
"I am here because I loved her films, and because she loved Switzerland," said Marika Durussol, who lives in a nearby village. "She had a simple lifestyle, and she was generous."
Ferrer and Hepburn's other son, 22-year-old Luca Dotti, led the pallbearers in carrying her oak coffin to the nearby cemetery, just a few hundred yards from her home.
A plain wooden cross served as a temporary grave marker in the cemetery, which looks across the village and lake to snow-capped Mont Blanc in the French Alps.
"Audrey Hepburn was a star in the real sense of the word," said Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, former U.N. high commissioner for refugees, who gave the eulogy in church. "Everyone in the audience fell in love with her."
Sadruddin noted that Hepburn had chosen to "dedicate herself to humanity" by becoming a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Children's Fund, visiting poor, sick and starving children to call attention to their plight.
"When she went out to the refugee camps, to the squalor of the tents, the mud hovels, think of what she brought to these children," he said. "She reached out to them with her smile, with her hands, with her heart."
Hepburn died at home on Wednesday, nearly three months after undergoing an operation for colon cancer in Los Angeles. She was 63. She discovered she had cancer after her last trip for UNICEF, to Somalia in September.
Among those attending the funeral were actor Mel Ferrer, her first husband, and Italian psychiatrist Andrea Dotti, her second, as well as her companion in recent years, Robert Wolders.
Celebrity mourners included actors Roger Moore and Alain Delon and designer Hubert de Givenchy.