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PICTURES: Remembering Betty Ford—Dignitaries Attend Funeral

Updated: July 14, 2011 | 7:14 p.m.
July 12, 2011 | 10:59 p.m.

  Former first lady Betty Ford's casket is carried in by military honor guard for the arrival ceremony at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum on July 13, 2011 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The former first lady will be buried next to her husband on Thursday July 14th. (Photo by Rex Larsen-Pool/Getty Images)          (Rex Larsen-Pool/Getty Images)

Lynne Cheney Remembers Her Friend

Former first lady Betty Ford died on Friday at the age of 93. At her funeral in Palm Desert, Calif., dozens of dignitaries, including Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and first lady Michelle Obama, were in attendance. Ford's final resting place will be in Grand Rapids, Mich. On Wednesday she was taken to the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids where a military honor guard presided over the arrival ceremony.

Take a look at some of the attendees of her funeral here: 

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