Barbara Bush's gravesite opens to the public Monday in College Station

Tuesday, April 24, 2018
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- Barbara Bush's gravesite will open to the public Monday morning if they wish to pay their respects to the former first lady.

A family spokesperson says the gravesite at the Bush Presidential Library at Texas A&M University in College Station will open at 9:30 a.m.

Family releases photos of Barbara Bush's private service

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Mrs. Bush was buried Saturday afternoon. The burial site is in a gated plot surrounded by trees and near a creek where the couple's 3-year-old daughter Robin is buried. She died of leukemia in 1953.

On Sunday morning, The Bush family released photos of Mrs. Bush's private burial service.

"It was a very brief but poignant and beautiful ending to a very moving and incredible day. It would have been exactly what Barbara Bush wanted," family spokesman Jim McGrath said.
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Hundreds of people lined both sides of the street near the campus as the funeral procession passed on a gray, cloudy day. Flags were flown at half-staff.
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