President Bush euologized Coretta Scott King Tuesday as a woman who fought through grief to help make America "whole."

At her funeral, the President said the nation got to know King in "all the seasons,” from the young widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. to the visionary leader who carried on his work.

"There was grace and beauty in every season,” Mr. Bush said.

The President ed mourners at the church near Atlanta where the service took place.

Three former presidents joined him, his father, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.

Mr. Bush said when King's husband was murdered, she somehow found the courage to carry on.

Her dignity, he said, “was a daily rebuke to the pettiness and cruelty of segretation."

Rarely, said Bush, has so much been asked of a pastor's wife.

But she went on to secure her husband's legacy and build her own, he said.

King’s funeral didn’t begin until 11 a.m. CST, but lines started forming outside the church in suburban Atlanta well before dawn for a final public viewing period from 5:30 a.m. until 8:30 a.m. CST.

An Atlanta man who brought his ten-year-old daughter said, "It's good to see her at peace."

King died Jan. 30 at an alternative medical clinic in Mexico where she was being treated for ovarian cancer and the effects of a heart attack and stroke.

Her body will be placed in a crypt near her husband’s tomb at the King Center, which she built in Martin Luther King’s memory.

Inscribed in the back of the crypt is a passge from First Corinthians 13:13, which reads: "And now abide Faith, Hope, Love, These Three; but the greatest of these is Love."