Mourners lining up to pay final respects to Barbara Bush
HOUSTON, TX - A spray of flowers covers the closed silver casket of former first lady Barbara Bush in the sanctuary of Houston's St. Martin's Episcopal Church where mourners are waiting to pay their final respects.
People are lining up hours early to attend a public viewing Friday at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, where Bush and her husband, former President George H.W. Bush, regularly attended services.
Many women are wearing blue, Mrs. Bush's favorite color, and pearls, her go-to neckwear jewelry.
A hearse containing the former first lady's casket arrived at the nation's largest Episcopal church before daybreak. Her body will lie in repose from noon to midnight.
An invitation-only funeral is set for Saturday. She'll be buried later in the day behind her husband's presidential library at Texas A&M University. The gated plot is in an area surrounded by trees and near a creek where the couple's 3-year-old daughter, Robin, is buried. She died of leukemia in 1953.