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King to lie in repose in Georgia CapitolFuneral for widow of civil rights leader scheduled for Tuesday
RELATEDATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- Coretta Scott King will lie in repose Saturday in the rotunda of the Georgia Capitol in Atlanta, and funeral services are scheduled for Tuesday, according to a statement issued Thursday by the King family. The public viewing at the Capitol for King, the widow of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., will be from noon to 8 p.m. ET, the statement said. On Monday, King's body will be in public view at the original Ebenezer Baptist Church's Heritage Sanctuary from 10 a.m. to midnight. A memorial musical celebration will be held from noon until 1 p.m. across the street at the church's Horizon Sanctuary. She was a member of the church, the family said, and her husband co-pastored there with his father from 1960 until his assassination eight years later. On Tuesday morning, a third public viewing will be held at New Birth Missionary Church in Lithonia, Georgia. New Birth is the state's largest black church, with 25,000 members and a cathedral that seats 10,000. The Kings' youngest daughter, Bernice, an ordained minister, is a member there. A "Home Going Celebration" is planned for Tuesday afternoon at New Birth, the statement said. "The King family is overwhelmed at the generous outpouring of support, prayers and condolences from all over the world," the statement said. King died Monday night at a holistic health care clinic in Mexico. She was 78. She had suffered a severe stroke and a mild heart attack last August and had ovarian cancer. The family requests that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Coretta Scott King Scholarship Fund at her alma mater, Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. (Antioch College Thursday's statement included no information on King's burial. Her husband lies in a crypt at the King Center, near Ebenezer in Atlanta. He was shot dead in Memphis, Tennessee, in April 1968, and his funeral services were held at Ebenezer and on the campus of Morehouse College. Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue made the offer for Mrs. King's body to lie in repose at the Capitol rotunda in Atlanta. He also ordered flags at all state buildings to be flown at half-staff until her funeral. Another one-time Georgia governor, former President Jimmy Carter, praised King on Wednesday as "determined, able, forceful, courageous and tenacious in carrying out the finest elements of [her husband's] legacy." "We had close ties personally, and I'm very grieved at her death," he told CNN. 
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