As former President George H. W. Bush continues to lie in state at the Capitol Rotunda, current Dodger Yasiel Puig and soon-to-be Legends of Dodger Baseball Steve Garvey have added their names to the growing list of current and former Dodgers to pay their respects to our nation’s 41st President.
“It was an honor to have met former President George H.W. Bush,” Dodgers outfield Yasiel Puig tweeted on Saturday morning. “My prayers are with his family, may he rest in peace.”
Bush, who died on Friday at the age of 94, will lie in state in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda from 5 p.m. ET Monday through 7 a.m. Wednesday. He will then be flown to his home of Houston, Texas aboard Air Force One (dubbed ‘Special Air Mission 41’), where he will lie in repose at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston from 7:45 p.m. ET Wednesday until 7 a.m. ET Thursday. The church will also hold a second memorial service for the former president at 11 a.m. ET Thursday.
On Thursday afternoon, a motorcade will transport Bush to the Union Pacific Railroad Westfield Auto Facility. From there, a funeral train will transport Bush to Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas, the site of the George H.W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, where he will be interred alongside his wife of 73 years Barbara Bush-Pierce, who died this past April at the age of 92.
Shortly after his death, it was reported that while in office, Bush kept his old Yale first baseman’s glove in a drawer of his Oval Office desk. He would oil it regularly and would often wear it to help him concentrate on matters of national and world importance, prompting fellow Yale alum and Dodgers legend Steve Garvey to post this on Twitter on Sunday evening:
But the real gut-wrencher came late Sunday night when Jim McGrath, Bush’s post-White House spokesman, posted this on Twitter:
Rest in peace, 41