UP4141 brings President George H.W. Bush to final resting place
HOUSTON (FOX 26) - Texas A&M says the private, graveside service for George H.W. Bush's family members has ended and the former president has been buried.
Thursday evening's ceremony concludes days of funeral activities honoring the 41st president.
After lying in state at the U.S. Capitol and a funeral at Washington's National Cathedral, Bush had a funeral at the Houston church where his family worshipped.
His remains then rode on a special funeral train to College Station, where he was buried at his presidential library at Texas A&M University. Prior to the closed service, about 2,100 cadets in dress uniforms lined the road to the graveside and saluted as the motorcade passed.
Family spokesman Jim McGrath says President George W. Bush has left the library and other relatives have, too.
The blue-and-gray locomotive painted to resemble Air Force One arrived Thursday in College Station after a roughly 70-mile (115-kilometer) trip from the Houston area. Thousands of people lined the train route to pay their respects to the 41st president.
The 12-car train also carried Bush's close friends and family, including former President George W. Bush.
They will now head to the grounds of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum at Texas A&M University for a private burial service. Bush will be laid to rest alongside his wife, Barbara Bush, and their daughter Robin, who died at age 3 of leukemia in 1953.
It was the eighth funeral train in U.S. history and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower's death nearly a half-century ago.
More than 11,000 people paid their respects to George H.W. Bush as the 41st President lay in repose all night at a Houston church where his family worshipped.
Some visitors waited for hours Wednesday night to pay tribute to Bush, who will be buried Thursday following a funeral at St. Martin's Episcopal Church.
About 1,200 mourners are expected at the service Thursday morning. Delivering a eulogy will be James Baker, Bush's former secretary of state and longtime confidant.
Bush's grandson George P. Bush will give the other eulogy. He is the Texas land commissioner.
A special train will then take Bush's casket to the campus of Texas A&M University in College Station, where Bush will be buried at his presidential library next to his wife, Barbara, and their young daughter Robin, who died in 1953.
Bush died at his home in Houston on Friday at age 94.
The Associated Press contributed to this story.