Mourners filled the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California Friday afternoon where they paid their respects to former First Lady, Nancy Reagan.
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) – Nancy Reagan’s funeral service has concluded at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in hill country northwest of Los Angeles.
Friday’s service ended with recollections and prayers by the Rev. Stuart A. Kenworthy, vicar of Washington National Cathedral, and a bagpipe recessional as military service members carried the casket to the grave site.
Her children Patti Davis and Ron Reagan stood by as “God Bless America” was played.
The service took place inside a cavernous white tent, one side left open, facing the hills in the distance. A blanket of gray clouds filled the sky, and a brief sprinkle tapped on the roof.
The former first lady, who died Sunday at age 94, will be buried next to Ronald Reagan, who died in 2004.
Her casket will be lowered into the tomb beside the former president Friday night, the moment watched over by senior library staff.
Nancy Reagan’s children recounted memories at their mother’s funeral.
Daughter Patti Davis described to mourners how Nancy Reagan was adamant about reuniting with her husband, who died in 2004.
Davis described her parents as “two halves of a circle,” recalling a long-ago memory of seeing the two of them sitting on a Southern California beach at sunset in what she called an impenetrable “island for two.”
Son Ron Prescott Reagan told the guests there likely would not have been a President Ronald Reagan without Nancy Reagan, saying she had an absolute belief in him, as well as provided guidance and a refuge.
