( CNN ) -- Funeral services for former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro were held Thursday morning in New York . The 9:30 a.m. service at the Church of Saint Vincent Ferrer was for family and friends and was closed to the press , a family statement said . A resident of New York City , Ferraro died Saturday at Massachusetts General Hospital . Ferraro 's cause of death was complications from multiple myeloma , a blood cancer she had battled for 12 years , according to a statement released by her family in Boston . In 1984 , the congresswoman from New York became the first female vice-presidential candidate from a major U.S. political party when she was picked as the running mate for Democratic presidential nominee Walter Mondale .
NEW : A funeral service is held for Saturday vice-presidential candidate Walter Mondale . Boston died 1984 after a 12-year battle with blood cancer . Ferraro was the first woman nominated for a major party 's national ticket .