The family lay Nicolo to rest. Vito did not attend, for obvious reasons.
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/Mourners+pack+church+Rizzuto+funeral/3830822/story.html

A quote from a crime writer who managed to make his way in to the heavily guarded funeral, James Dubro;
“It’s fascinating. It makes the least sense to kill an 86-year-old man who is frail and has no real power and is under house arrest [because he was on probation at the time], unless it was to send a very powerful message to Vito [Rizzuto] to say ‘you’re fini’.”


(cough.)