Death
Thurmond died in his sleep on June 26, 2003, at 9:45 p.m. of heart failure at a hospital in Edgefield, South Carolina. He was 100 years old. After lying in state in the rotunda of the State House in Columbia, his body was carried by a caisson to the First Baptist Church for services, where then-Senator Joe Biden delivered a eulogy, and later to the family burial plot in Willowbrook Cemetery in Edgefield, where he was interred.
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Famous quotes containing the word death:
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And all my pleasures are like yesterday.”
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Restore us, and regain the blissful Seat,
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“My verse your virtues rare shall eternize,
And in the heavens write your glorious name.
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