A somber Jason and Kylie Kelce were seen attending the funeral of his ‘heartbroken’ father’s girlfriend – but his younger brother, Travis, and his superstar girlfriend, Taylor Swift, appeared to have stayed away, the Daily Mail can reveal.
The retired Philadelphia Eagles center arrived five minutes before the start of Maureen Anne Maguire’s funeral at St. John Vianney Catholic church in Gladwyne, Pennsylvania, suited and booted and with a Starbucks coffee in hand.
The 37-year-old appeared downcast as he arrived with wearing a light-colored shirt, dark tie and slacks with wife Kylie dressed in a simple knee-length black shift dress and strappy heels.
The celebrity couple – who live a short drive from the church in a $6 million megamansion in the wealthy suburb of Haverford, Pennsylvania – were among the last to join the line of mourners filing through the front doors of the church to say farewell to the partner of the Kelce patriarch, who died last Friday aged 74.
The older Kelce brother appeared to be representing both of Ed’s sons – after his Kansas City Chiefs brother Travis was spotted this morning playing at his team’s training camp at Missouri Western University in St Joseph, ahead of season start on Saturday.
The 35-year-old appeared in great shape at the training camp, pouring cold water on any imminent retirement suggestions.
A somber Jason and Kylie Kelce were seen arriving at the funeral of his father’s partner
The couple appeared downcast as they attended the service for Maureen Anne Maguire
Maguire, the girlfriend of Ed Kelce, died on Friday at the age of 74 surrounded by loved ones
‘I love it here,’ Kelce said of training camp. It gets me away from everything else that’s going on in this crazy world. You can really just focus in on your craft and focus in on being the best you can for the guys around you, man.’
‘Football has always been the biggest driving force I’ve ever had. I love coming out here and focusing on this and getting better for another run at hopefully a Super Bowl.
Travis’s popstar girlfriend Swift was nowhere to be seen at the small Catholic mass – despite Kelce senior Ed sharing sweet photographs of Maguire and him with the ‘I Can Do It with a Broken Heart’ hitmaker.
Announcing Maguire’s death on his Facebook page with an online obituary, Ed shared photo of the three of them in Kansas City Chiefs merch, with the singer holding a card and what appears to be a friendship bracelet.
Ed also shared a photograph with Maguire from Saturday Night Live in March 2023 in New York, when three-time Super Bowl winner Travis was the guest host.
In an interview last year with the LA Times, Ed revealed how his girlfriend and Swift had struck up a bond.
Maguire, according to Ed, jokingly told Swift ‘hey, that’s my boyfriend’ when the singer took a selfie with Travis and Jason’s father at an NFL game.
Maguire’s obituary doesn’t explain how she and Ed met but revealed how much football was an influence on her later years.
Ed Kelce (back left) and other pallbearers carried her coffin down the steps of the church
The Philadelphia Eagles icon arrived five minutes before the service with a Starbucks in-hand
Kylie pulled her father-in-law in for a hug as they exited the church following the service
Maguire’s coffin is pictured being carried into St. John Vianney Catholic church
‘She also grew an unexpected love for football later in life, sharing many laughs and adventures with her beloved friend Ed Kelce and her loyal dog Butch,’ the obituary said.
‘Together, they traveled often and attended football games and concerts, and embraced every opportunity to enjoy life to the fullest.’
The older Kelce brother’s appearance at the funeral comes after the Mail exclusively pictured him at his sprawling estate – dressed down in his casual gear with his wife and four daughters.
DailyMail.com spotted him Wednesday on the driveway of his sprawling property in the wealthy suburb of Haverford, Pennsylvania, with wife Kylie and their four daughters.
Kelce kept it low-key and ate from a small bowl while entertaining two of his daughters as one rode a bike, and another played on a toy horse.
Wife Kylie, who cut a similarly casual figure barefoot and in a black sweatsuit, cradled their newborn and kept an eye on another daughter as their huge Irish wolfhound padded around them.
Kelce and Kylie married in 2018 and share four daughters, Wyatt, 5, Elliotte, 4, and Bennett, 2, and newborn Finnley, who arrived in March.
They are raising their young family at their massive 10-acre compound, which boasts three properties and a swimming pool with waterfalls and a hot tub.
The church was located a short drive from the Kelces’ $6 million mansion in Haverford, PA
The couple were exclusively pictured at the sprawling estate the day prior to the funeral
The former center cut a casual figure as he and Kylie watched over their four daughters
The mother-of-four is pictured exiting the church alongside fellow downcast mourners
Kelce – brother to Kansas City Chiefs star Travis – recently got permission to build a fourth home on his estate and do other extensive updates, including adding a fence to improve ‘security’ on the property and ‘deter foot traffic’.
The couple appeared on their driveway briefly as an unknown older man and a young girl wearing matching blue t-shirts arrived at the huge compound yesterday afternoon and were seen chatting with Kelce before admiring his luxury Tesla cyber truck.
Kelce’s appearance came just a day before the funeral of Maguire, the partner of his father Ed, who is said to be ‘heartbroken’ over her death from a long-term illness.
‘Maureen wasn’t just his partner, she was his person. They were a team. They shared everything… games, concerts, travel, dogs, dinners with family. He’s feeling an enormous void,’ a source reportedly told PEOPLE magazine.
Kelce patriarch Ed was nowhere to be seen at the mansion, or his home in nearby Ardmore, where workers appeared to be clearing or doing repairs.
It isn’t known when Ed first met Maguire, or how. But an online obituary for Maguire’s first husband, Daniel J. Maguire Jr, from February 2023 describes Maureen as ‘his loving wife…with whom he was married for 28 years’.
But Ed and Donna Kelce, the mother of Travis and Jason, went their separate ways after nearly 25 years of marriage around the time their sons were at college, but remain good friends.
Two unmarked police cars driven by uniformed cops were seen watching over the funeral and directing cars entering and exiting the jam-packed church car park – with some mourners having to park at a nearby supermarket across the street.
The Kelce patriarch is comforted by fellow mourners as Maguire’s friends and family filter out
Devastated friends and family comforted each other outside of the Pennsylvania church
A line of mourners file through the front doors of the church to say their goodbyes
Maguire will be buried at a private ceremony after the funeral. Earlier, workers and family members were seen carrying large bouquets of flowers and sweet picture boards into the church.
In a moving nod to Maguire’s Gaelic roots, a bagpiper played her out of the church as her grieving partner Ed and other pallbearers carried her coffin down the steps of the church and placed her in a silver hearse before she was driven away for her private burial.
Kelce senior, who wore a grey suit jacket, tie and dark pants, was seen shaking hands and hugging mourners – including Kylie – who gathered on the steps of the church, before going inside.
She and Jason were later seen leaving the church car park in their green Toyota Sienna vehicle.
Two unmarked police cars and a Lower Merion marked police vehicle were seen managing the flow of traffic down the road as mourners drove away.
Maguire’s long-term illness was not released by Kelce senior, but in her online obituary, he asked family and friends to donate to the Penn Heart Transplant Fund, which he said ‘provides support to individuals in financial need receiving heart transplants’ instead of sending flowers.
Kelce Sr.’s youngest son Travis Kelce was unable to attend the funeral due to training camp
Ed previously revealed that Maguire had struck up a bond with Travis’s girlfriend Taylor Swift
Ed was said to be left ‘heartbroken’ over Maguire’s death. The couple are pictured in 2023
A local Philadelphia magazine article about Maguire from February 2014 reveals how she went into ventricular tachycardia (VTAC) aged 32 and later received a heart transplant around 2013, with her care managed by cardiologist Dr Harvey Waxman at the pioneering Penn Medicine.
According to the article, heart disease runs in Maguire’s family, with her younger brother passing away aged 15 from a sudden heart attack due to an undiagnosed heart condition.
In the article, Maguire said that 10 years prior she had had to slow down due to her heart failure but that her heart transplant had given her a second chance at life.
