MTV star Diem Brown tragically lost her long battle with cancer this week but her close friends and family have been testifying how she didn't go down without a fight, and was positive and dignified to the end.  

The 32-year-old's funeral was held at the Church of St Francis Xavier, in Manhattan, on Tuesday and included the devotional song, "On Eagles' Wings".

On the back of the programme were inspirational words from Proverbs 31.25: "She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future."

The service was presided over by Father Peter Fink of St Francis Xavier and Pastor Kane Keatinge of Hillsong Church.

Close friend and E!Online correspondent Alicia Quarles told People magazine in a conversation just two weeks before her passing, Brown had talked about "her faith in God, her love of family".

Quarles also revealed that the pair prayed together after Brown received the difficult news from the doctors that the cancer was spreading through her body.  

But to her surprise, it wasn't the prayer Brown was wanting her to say.

"I was saying, 'Dear Lord, please let this pain leave Diem's body,' " recalls Quarles. "And she was like, 'What are you talking about? I'm not going anywhere. Pray for peace!' "