AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- Family prayer services and a huge public outpouring Friday ushered in three days of memorial ceremonies honoring the late Lady Bird Johnson, an environmentalist first lady who clung to her Texas roots.
Johnson made a final trip to her beloved wildflower center, where friends and family gathered for a private religious service Friday morning accented by some of her favorite flowers.
Afterward, the family greeted her casket once it was moved across town to the LBJ Library and Museum at the University of Texas at Austin.
Surrounded by historical documents and mementos of Lyndon B. Johnson's administration, the former first lady's oak casket, draped in an Episcopalian pall, was placed in the exact spot where her husband's casket rested after his death in 1973.
Lady Bird Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes.
"My mother had 94 delicious years. She lived them to the fullest," daughter Luci Baines Johnson said Friday. She said despite her mother's medical problems, she recently toured a university art museum and delighted over a pasture of wildflowers in the nearby Hill Country.
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