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[h=4]Mourners line up to pay respects to Nancy Reagan[/h]Mourners gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday to pay their last respects to former first lady Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday in Bel Air at age 94.
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The hearse carrying Nancy Reagan's casket arrived at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library for the viewing and funeral. (Mar. 9, 2016)
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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Mourners gathered at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Wednesday to pay their last respects to former first lady Nancy Reagan, who died Sunday in Bel Air at age 94.
Flowers lined the entrance to the Simi Valley compound on Wednesday morning, before the arrival of Reagan's motorcade.
Reagan will lie in repose at the library on Wednesday and Thursday before a funeral service Friday.
The visitation is open to the public Wednesday and Thursday.
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The first person lined up for the visitation was Oxnard resident Warren Weston, who said Nancy Reagan "harkens back to an era when we all got along."
Weston and about 75 people had lined up to take a shuttle to the library about two hours before visitation was slated to begin.
Dimitri Thomas also lined up. He said he's been a fan of Reagan since her Hollywood days as actress Nancy Davis. His favorite film was , in which she costarred in with Ronald Reagan.
The funeral, which is not open to the public, begins at 2 a.m. ET Friday.
About 1,000 invited guests are expected at the funeral, including President Richard Nixon's daughter Tricia Nixon Cox and President Lyndon Johnson's daughters, Lynda Bird Johnson Robb and Luci Baines Johnson.
Barbara Marx, top left, new wife of singer Frank Sinatra, and former ambassador Walter Annenberg, top right, pose for a picture with Nancy and Ronald Reagan, Republican presidential candidate, at a reception at the Sinatra home following the Sinatra wedding in Palm Springs, Calif., July 12, 1976.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> CHUCK SCARDANO, AP
From top left, former first lady Nancy Reagan (partially obscured), former President George W. Bush, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, first lady Michelle Obama and former first lady Rosalynn Carter watch as members of the armed forces carry the coffin bearing the body of former first lady Betty Ford into St. Margaret's Episcopal Church Tuesday, July 12, 2011, in Palm Desert, Calif. At lower left is former first lady of California, Maria Shriver. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool)<span style="color: Red;">*</span> AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, Pool
COLLEGE STATION- NOV 6: (L-R) Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, Former First Ladies Betty Ford, Barbara Bush, Nancy Reagan, and Lady Bird Johson at the dedication of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library, College Station, Texas, November 6, 1997. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images)<span style="color: Red;">*</span> David Hume Kennerly, Getty Images
Nov 4, 1991 - Simi Valley, California, USA - Six First Ladies were present at the opening of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library. Left to right seated, LADY BIRD JOHNSON, ROSALYN CARTER, PAT NIXON, and BETTY FORD. Standing are NANCY REAGAN, left, and BARBARA BUSH.<span style="color: Red;">*</span> Leonard Ortiz, ZUMA Press
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Other announced mourners expected to attend are Katie Couric, Newt Gingrich, Chris Matthews, Wayne Newton and Mr. T, who was involved in helping Reagan with public service announcements during the first lady's "Just Say No" anti-drug campaign in the 1980s.
Daughter Patti Davis, dressed in black, greeted about 20 family members and close friends upon arrival at a Santa Monica mortuary where a 20-minute service was presided over by the Rev. Stuart Kenworth, The Associated Press reported. Attendees included the children of Ronald Reagan's son, Michael, and Dennis Revell, the widower of the former president's late daughter Maureen.
Nancy Reagan's casket was then carried by pallbearers that included members of her Secret Service detail to the hearse before it headed to the library.
Reagan will be buried alongside her husband on the library's grounds following Friday's funeral service.
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Family and friends of former first lady Nancy Reagan attend a memorial service in Santa Monica, California on Wednesday. The funeral service is scheduled for Friday. (March 9) AP
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