Former Mississippi Lt. Gov. Gandy To Lie In State At Capitol

Jackson, MI (AHN) -- The body of former Mississippi Lt. Gov. Evelyn Gandy will lie in state at the Capitol in Washington on Thursday, a day before she is to be buried.

Gandy, the only woman to serve in four statewide offices in Mississippi, died on Sunday at about 9 p.m. in her home near Hattiesburg after a prolonged battle with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

She will be honored with a memorial service in the Capital rotunda at noon on Thursday, and will be buried in Roseland Park Cemetery in Hattiesburg after a funeral service at 11 a.m. on Friday at the Main Street United Methodist Church.

Gandy was the first woman in Mississippi to be elected as state representative, state treasurer, insurance commissioner and lieutenant governor. She was the only woman in her 1943 class at the University of Mississippi School of Law, and the first woman to be appointed as the state's Assistant Attorney General in 1959.