Country music’s Oak Ridge Boys, among the president’s favourites, sang Amazing Grace and Reba McEntire offered The Lord’s Prayer as three days of official ceremonies in Washington gave way to more personal touches for the Bush family in Texas.
The night before, more than 11,000 people paid their respects as his casket lay in repose all night at St Martin’s Episcopal Church, where his family worshipped.
At Thursday’s funeral, Mr Baker said, “The world became a better place because George Bush occupied the White House for four years”.
He said that Mr Bush embodied some of the nation’s best values, “temperate” in thought, word and deed, “our nation’s very best one-term president”.
George P Bush, the former president’s grandson and the only member of the political dynasty still holding elected office – as Texas land commissioner, subsequently struck a more personal tone with the man he and the younger generations called “gampy”.
The services attracted local sports stars including Houston Texans defensive end JJ Watt and featured hymns chosen and loved by the former president.
The nation’s capital bid him goodbye on Wednesday in a Washington funeral service that offered high praise for the last of the presidents to have fought in World War II – and a hefty dose of humour about a man whose speaking delivery was once described as a cross between Mister Rogers and John…
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