President George H.W. Bush's extended state funeral began its final stages on Thursday in Houston, Texas, with the second imposing church memorial in two days – and his grandsons serving as honorary pallbearers.
About 1,000 invited guests at St. Martin's Episcopal Church included members of the 41st president's family, Houston athletes and civic leaders who knew him as a service-minded American who invested more than four decades in merging his family's values with America's.
'He's been my friend and he's been my role model,' said former White House chief of staff and secretary of state James Baker, in the day's first eulogy.
Addressing his friend 'Jefe,' he told the late president that he was 'about to do something you always hated and that your mother always told you not to do: brag about yourself.'
Bush never gloated when the Berlin wall fell, he said, and was without a doubt 'America's greatest one-term president.'
'He was not considered a skilled speaker,' Baker said, 'but his deeds were quite elegant.'
Choking up, the man Bush called 'Bake' ended with a hat-tip to Yeats. 'Our glory, George,' he said, 'was to have had you as our president and as such a friend.'
President George H.W. Bush's extended state funeral began its final stages on Thursday in Houston, Texas , with the second imposing church memorial in two days
On Wednesday, George W. Bush gave a moving and tearful eulogy for his father in Washington D.C.
Barbara Pierce Bush helped opened up the funeral service for her grandfather on Thursday
James Baker, a longtime Bush confidant who served him as White House chief of staff and secretary of state, eulogized him along with George P. Bush, the late president's grandson – a Texas land commissioner with a bright political future
The 41st president's grandson George P. Bush speaks during his funeral in Houston, fondly recalling memories with 'Gampy'
Former president George W. Bush stood next to his wife Laura and Jeb Bush at the funeral service for his father George H.W. Bush on Thursday morning at St. Martin's Episcopal Church in Houston
President George H.W. Bush's grandsons served as his honorary pallbearers at his funeral service in Houston
Wednesday's awe-inspiring funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington was an unapologetic display of patriotic symbolism, with military escorts and flags of the 50 U.S. states flying above the length of the center aisle.
A church service a day later in a no-less-imposing space featured just two flags: the stars and stripes draped over Bush's casket and carried in front of it.
The church choir rendered 'This is My Country' as a worship anthem and the National Anthem with pipe organ and soprano descant. 'America the Beautiful' was sung as a congregational hymn.
And while Wednesday's musical centerpiece was famed tenor Ronan Tynan singing a showstopper based on Abraham Lincoln speeches, the Texas service featured the Oakridge Boys singing 'Amazing Grace' and a version of The Lord's Prayer performed by country star Reba McIntyre.
George P. Bush, the late president's grandson – a Texas land commissioner with a bright political future – eulogized him along with Baker, the longtime presidential confidant.
Barbara Pierce Bush, one of former President George W. Bush's twin daughters, read the 23rd Psalm along with two of the late elder George Bush's other granddaughters, Elizabeth Dwen Andrews and Noelle Lucila Bush.
Noelle is the daughter of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, George W.'s brother. Marshall Lloyd Bush, the adopted daughter of their brother Marvin, read from the Old Testament.
Former Houston Rockets stars Yao Ming and Dikembe Mutumbo were among the mourners on Wednesday, their 7-foot heights elevated above the crowd.
Movie star Arnold Schwarzenegger, a former California governor, sat near the front. His bromance with the elder George Bush was well-known during his presidency.
The flag-draped casket of former President George H.W. Bush is carried by a joint services military honor guards
About 1,000 invited guests at St. Martin's Episcopal Church included members of the 41st president's family, Houston athletes and civic leaders who knew him as a service-minded American who invested more than four decades in merging his family's values with America's
Country music singer Reba McEntire was also at the service. On Instagram last week, she posted several photos as a tribute to the 41st president, saying he was a 'great friend' and that he 'had a great life'
Also there for the funeral at the church where Bush and his late wife Barbara worshiped at for 50 year was Arnold Schwarzenegger (fourth from right)
Actor Chuck Norris arrives with other guests for the funeral of President George H.W. Bush
Houston Texans' J. J. Watt arrives at a funeral for former President George H.W. Bush
Former NBA basketball player Yao Ming attended the funeral service on Thursday
After the funeral, Bush's casket will travel by train from Houston to Texas A&M, passing through five small towns, marking his final journey to his resting place
After the funeral at the church, his casket will be taken by train 70 miles from Houston to Texas A&M in a clear-sided baggage car that hails from the golden era of railroads.
The locomotive carrying his body was painted to resemble Air Force One, and Bush joked that if it had been around during his presidency, he may have preferred to ride the rails rather than take to the skies.
'I might have left Air Force One behind,' Bush quipped during the 2005 unveiling of 4141, a blue and gray locomotive commissioned in honor of the 41st president and unveiled at Texas A&M University.
Today, that same 4,300-horsepower machine will carry Bush's casket, along with relatives and close friends, for around 70 miles. The journey through five small Texas towns was expected to take about two and a half hours. It will deliver the casket from suburban Houston to College Station.
The train's sixth car, a converted baggage hauler called 'Council Bluffs,' has been fitted with transparent sides to allow mourners lining the tracks views of Bush's flag draped coffin.
There, a motorcade will take Bush to his presidential library at the university, where he will be laid to rest at a private ceremony next to his wife, Barbara, who died in April, and his daughter Robin, who died at age 3 in 1953.
Bush, who narrowly escaped death as a naval aviator who was shot down by Japanese forces over the Pacific Ocean in World War Two, will be buried with military honors, including a flyover by 21 aircraft from the U.S. Navy.
Bush's funeral train will be the eighth in U.S. history and the first since Dwight D. Eisenhower's body traveled from the National Cathedral in Washington through seven states to his Kansas hometown of Abilene 49 years ago. Abraham Lincoln's funeral train was the first, in 1865.
Robert F. Kennedy was never president, but he was running for the White House when he was assassinated in Los Angeles in 1968.
Former President George H.W. Bush, left, joins then President-elect Barack Obama, President George W. Bush, former President Bill Clinton and former President Jimmy Carter in the Oval Office at the White House in 2009
George H.W. Bush has begun his final journey today, as his casket will be taken by train 70 miles from Houston to Texas A&M in a clear-sided baggage car that hails from the golden era of railroads. The locomotive of the train was named 4141 and painted to resemble Air Force One
The 4,300-horsepower locomotive will carry Bush's casket, along with relatives and close friends, for around 70 miles. The journey through five small Texas towns should take about two and a half hours. It will deliver the casket from suburban Houston to College Station. Pictured: Bush in 2005 at the unveiling of the locomotive
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