WATCH LIVE: Barbara Bush's funeral
Son Jeb Bush, the former governor of Florida, grew emotional as he delivered remarks about his mother's legacy. "Our family has had a front row seat to the most unbelievable love story", he said. She lived accounting to the mantra of the Bush family for many years: "don't get caught up in big me", Levenson said.
Susan Garrett Baker, longtime friend of the late Barbara Bush and the wife of former Secretary of State James Baker, called her the "gold standard of what it means to be a friend". Bush helped to shape the people who lead our country. The Hajjars own Fuzzy's Pizza and Cafe, one of Barbara Bush's favorite restaurants. Meacham said that during her final days in the hospital, Bush jokingly asked a nurse if she wanted to know "why George W. turned out the way he had". He said he would watch the service; it is not usual practice for a sitting president to attend a First Lady's funeral because of security concerns. "And you became one", Bono told Bush, who would work to fight AIDS in Africa during his presidency. He also shared his last conversation with her.
Friends and loved ones of former first lady Barbara Bush gathered Saturday morning at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, to celebrate her life in a lovely religious service. Mrs. Eight of her grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Bush, wife of former president George H.W. Bush and mother of former president George W. Bush, died at her home in Houston on April 17 at the age of 92.
George H.W. Bush appeared tearful as he listened to the eulogy.
In a Twitter post, Trump said his "thoughts and prayers are with the entire Bush family".
At St. Martin's Church on Saturday, the focus was on a different kind of presidential.
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And she was "a remarkable and selfless companion to her beloved husband George". President Obama did not attend Nancy Reagan's funeral in 2016 or Betty Ford's funeral in 2011.
Despite her many roles, her son Jeb Bush said, the story of President and Mrs.
Presidential historian Jon Meacham, who wrote a 2015 biography on the former president, recalled during his eulogy Barbara Bush's devotion to her husband of 73 years, noting he was the "only boy she ever kissed".
The pews filled at a Houston church on Saturday to honor Barbara Bush. Former president Jimmy Carter will also not be in attendance; he is caring for his wife, Rosalynn Carter, who is recovering from surgery, he said in a statement.
President Trump will not attend Saturday's service, to "avoid disruptions" and out of respect for the Bush family, the White House has said.
She was buried on Saturday in the grounds of the Bush library at Texas A&M University, alongside the couple's three-year-old daughter Robin, who died in 1953 of leukaemia. She gave voice to homeless advocates yet was also "pen pals with people she never met", like a young girl who named her heifer after Bush and put the "bovine Barbara Bush" in a competition.
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