Mrs. King Lies In State at the Capitol

[Pamalicious]

I'm watching the coverage on Channel Two with Monica Kauffman and the crew. Jovita is having a hard time holding it together.

The Kids are looking dazed but strong.

Whew when the bag pipe plays Amazing Grace it can't help but get to you.

Mrs. King is the first woman and first African American (I think, Jovita started to cry and didn't get her full sentence out).

[jaila]

i bet that is painful to watch..i wish i was home and could see it.

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Go to www.wsbtv.com or to the ajc website. They have pictures and videos of today's Capitol service. I watched it, and prepare yourself cause it's really emotional. I boo hooed like baby.

[Tastey]

I'm thankful to see that the cancer had not eaten away at her so much so that she didn't look like herself. She looks Angelic and peaceful.

RIP Mrs. King

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I'm thankful to see that the cancer had not eaten away at her so much so that she didn't look like herself. She looks Angelic and peaceful.

RIP Mrs. King
Bernice King: Mother 'peaceful' at death

By ERNIE SUGGS
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 02/05/06
With her New Birth Missionary Baptist Church family supporting her spiritually, Bernice King on Sunday recalled the last hours of her mother, Coretta Scott King, at Hospital Santa Monica in Mexico.

Coretta Scott King checked into the holistic hospital on Jan. 26, and King, an elder at New Birth, said her mother started "making her transition Friday, the 27th of January."

"She was making a noise for three hours," King told the congregation. "I asked her if she was in pain. She said 'no.' I asked her if she was uncomfortable. She said 'no.' I realized that my mother was wrestling with God."

King said her mother was struggling with staying in this world, or traveling to the next.

"Then she got a glimpse of it," King said, adding that that is when her mother stopped struggling, and fell into a semi-comatose state."

"She was peaceful," King said. "Like I had never see her before. I prayed that she leave with pure joy and no struggle."

King said that during her mother's battles with the heart condition, stroke and then cancer, she prayed to God that he heal her.

"Before now, I always thought that meant absolute in the natural sense of the word. Of my mother coming back into this Earthly realm and finishing things," King said. "God showed me that the greatest healing is when you make your transition. God reassured me that she is perfectly healed now."

King will deliver her mother's eulogy Tuesday at New Birth.

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