Kate Spade's father dies night before designer's funeral

US fashion designer Kate Spade has been laid to rest in her home town of Kansas City, Missouri, 16 days after her death by suicide.Less than a day before the funeral, her 89-year-old father Earl F Brosnahan Jr died in the same city.


He had been in bad health and was "heartbroken over the recent death of his beloved daughter", the Brosnahan family said in a statement.