PALM DESERT, California, July 10 UPI)-the family of the U.S. former First Lady Betty Ford said that its California Tuesday memorial service would be private, although the public was welcome later.
The wife of 93 years of former President Gerald Ford died Friday at Eisenhower Medical Center in Rancho Mirage of natural causes with the members of the family, at his side, the Los Angeles Times reported.
Family spokesman Greg Willard, long-time Ford Attorney, stated that a private Episcopal Church of St. Margaret in Palm Desert Memorial will begin at 11: 20 p.m. Tuesday. Eulogies will be given by the former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, Cokie Roberts affairs commentator and the Director of Betty Ford Center for addictions, Geoffrey Mason.
Public visits to the Church was scheduled to begin at 3 p.m., said Willard.
The remains of Ford will be embedded in Grand Rapids, Michigan for burial next to her husband, who died in 2006.
The wife of the 38th President used his status of awareness of women health and drug treatment. She underwent a mastectomy and to overcoming addictions to alcohol and pain, leading to the foundation of the clinic named for her at Rancho Mirage, California.
