MITCHELL, S.D. (AP) — Family members of the late Sen. George McGovern say his cremated remains will be buried early next year in a historic Washington, D.C., cemetery.
The remains are currently in Sioux Falls, where McGovern died in October at the age of 90, nephew Matt McGovern told the Daily Republic (http://bit.ly/QZFKfw ).
“We plan to do it sometime in mid-February,” Matt McGovern said. “It’s just a matter of when we can come together to do it. He’s been cremated. It’s something he decided to do.”
McGovern, the 1972 Democratic nominee for president, lost the election to Richard Nixon in an electoral landslide.
In his later years, McGovern became known for his advocacy for world nutrition, a cause he continued long after leaving public office. In 2008, he was awarded the World Food Prize along with former Republican Sen. Bob Dole.
When McGovern’s 85-year-old wife, Eleanor, died in 2007, she was interred at City Cemetery in Mitchell. Her remains were moved to Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington later that year.
One of the McGoverns’ daughters, Terry, was buried in Rock Creek after she died in 1994 at the age of 45. Their son Steven, who died on July 27 in a South Dakota hospice at the age of 60, will be interred with his father, Matt McGovern said.
Another McGovern daughter, Ann McGovern, and Matt McGovern have homes in Sioux Falls, and both spent a great deal of time with the former senator in his final years.
The former senator had considered being buried in Mitchell, where he grew up, attended college, worked as a young man and returned to in the twilight of his life to help build a library and center for leadership and public service on the Dakota Wesleyan University campus.
Among the notable people buried at Rock Creek, which opened in 1719, are writers Gore Vidal, Upton Sinclair and Henry Adams and Supreme Court Chief Justice Harlan Fiske Stone.
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Information from: The Daily Republic, http://www.mitchellrepublic.com
Source:
http://www.ezonearticle.com/2012/12/16/mcgoverns-remains-to-be-buried-in-dc-early-2013/
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