The family held a visitation at Salon Charles Rajotte, a funeral home in Repentigny, which is located outside of Montreal, for Daniel who died last week of cancer at age 59.
His tragic death came just two days after the singer's husband René Angélil also died after battling the disease for years.
'They're close; she's close with all of her siblings,' a source told of Dion, 47, and Daniel. 'It's hard.'
Dressed in a gray skirt suit with a black coat draped over her shoulders, the singer was pictured arriving with her sister and mother to the funeral chapel Saturday.
Family and friends will say their final goodbye to Daniel at a funeral Monday that will be held at the St-Simon-et-Jude parish in Charlemagne, Quebec, where the family was raised, People.com reported.
Daniel had been suffering from throat, brain and tongue cancer.
He was in the hospital in Céline's native Montreal and surrounded by his family, including 88-year-old mother Therese when he died.
'They're close, she's close with all of her siblings,' a source told the Montreal Gazette. 'It's hard.'
'His last days were in the wonderful care of the doctors and personnel at Maison Adhémar-Dion, a palliative care center in Terrebonne Québec,' Daniel's obituary reads.
'For those wishing to send flowers, a donation to that organization would be very much appreciated.'
It also read: 'Battling cancer for a few years, it's in the uttermost discretion and surrounded by his family that Daniel Dion, 59, died today, January 16. He was the eighth child of Thérèse and Adhémar Dion, brother of Céline.'
'In sadness and grief, he leaves a large family headed by their mother, Thérèse Tanguay-Dion; his daughters Valérie (Patrick Goyette) and Marie-Michelle; his grandchildren Matis and Laurianne (Valérie); his brothers and sisters Denise (Yvon Dodier), Clément (Denise Dumont), Claudette (Serge Gaudet) Liette (Guy Poirier) Michel (Danièle Corbeil), Louise (Pierre Tremblay), Jacques (Geneviève Garceau), Ghislaine (Jacques Talbot), Linda (Alain Sylvestre), Manon, Paul, Pauline (Marc Martel) and Céline (René Angélil). As well as many nieces and nephews, cousins and friends, who are remembering a gentle and reserved man of many talents.'
During the award-winning singer's husband's funeral, the couple's oldest son, René Charles Angelil, gave a moving eulogy to his father and captured the heart of Canada..
René Charles has been a pillar of strength for his devastated mother, and during his father René Angélil's funeral on Friday at the Notre-Dame Basilica he was even for a moment able to make her smile.
His tragic death came just two days after the singer's husband René Angélil also died after battling the disease for years.
'They're close; she's close with all of her siblings,' a source told of Dion, 47, and Daniel. 'It's hard.'
Dressed in a gray skirt suit with a black coat draped over her shoulders, the singer was pictured arriving with her sister and mother to the funeral chapel Saturday.
Family and friends will say their final goodbye to Daniel at a funeral Monday that will be held at the St-Simon-et-Jude parish in Charlemagne, Quebec, where the family was raised, People.com reported.
Daniel had been suffering from throat, brain and tongue cancer.
He was in the hospital in Céline's native Montreal and surrounded by his family, including 88-year-old mother Therese when he died.
'They're close, she's close with all of her siblings,' a source told the Montreal Gazette. 'It's hard.'
'His last days were in the wonderful care of the doctors and personnel at Maison Adhémar-Dion, a palliative care center in Terrebonne Québec,' Daniel's obituary reads.
'For those wishing to send flowers, a donation to that organization would be very much appreciated.'
It also read: 'Battling cancer for a few years, it's in the uttermost discretion and surrounded by his family that Daniel Dion, 59, died today, January 16. He was the eighth child of Thérèse and Adhémar Dion, brother of Céline.'
'In sadness and grief, he leaves a large family headed by their mother, Thérèse Tanguay-Dion; his daughters Valérie (Patrick Goyette) and Marie-Michelle; his grandchildren Matis and Laurianne (Valérie); his brothers and sisters Denise (Yvon Dodier), Clément (Denise Dumont), Claudette (Serge Gaudet) Liette (Guy Poirier) Michel (Danièle Corbeil), Louise (Pierre Tremblay), Jacques (Geneviève Garceau), Ghislaine (Jacques Talbot), Linda (Alain Sylvestre), Manon, Paul, Pauline (Marc Martel) and Céline (René Angélil). As well as many nieces and nephews, cousins and friends, who are remembering a gentle and reserved man of many talents.'
During the award-winning singer's husband's funeral, the couple's oldest son, René Charles Angelil, gave a moving eulogy to his father and captured the heart of Canada..
René Charles has been a pillar of strength for his devastated mother, and during his father René Angélil's funeral on Friday at the Notre-Dame Basilica he was even for a moment able to make her smile.
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