President’s Funeral To Begin Friday; Ford To Lie in State Over Weekend
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WASHINGTON — President Ford’s state funeral will begin Friday in his beloved California, with the late president then to lie in state in the U.S. Capitol over the weekend, a family representative said yesterday.
Giving the first details of funeral arrangements for the 38th president, Gregory D. Willard said events will last until Wednesday, when Ford will be interred in a hillside tomb near his presidential museum in his home state of Michigan.
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