Ed Koch, mayor who became a symbol of New York City, dies

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Not long after buying the plot, he had his tombstone inscribed and installed. The marker features the last words of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl: "My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish."

It also includes a Jewish prayer and the epitaph he wrote after his stroke:

"He was fiercely proud of his Jewish faith. He fiercely defended the City of New York, and he fiercely loved its people. Above all, he loved his country, the United States of America, in whose armed forces he served in World War II."

Koch was survived by his sister, Pat Thaler, and many grandnieces and grandnephews.

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Associated Press writer Samantha Gross contributed to this report.

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