I was10 years old and in the 5th grade. They had a tv brought into the class room and we watched the funeral procession. His son, that little boy standing there and saluting as the flag draped coffin rolled by in is seared into my memory.
I find her death especially sad. So beautiful and so talented and got her start singing in her church. She held promise of a bright future and then drugs and getting involved with the wrong man brought her down.