A public memorial service is planned for Wednesday in Virginia to honor the late U.S. Rep. Don Young of Alaska. The service will be the day after Young is to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol.
JUNEAU — A public memorial service is planned for Wednesday in Virginia to honor the late U.S. Rep. Don Young of Alaska.
Young’s former congressional office announced a service at St. Francis Episcopal Church in Great Falls, Virginia on Wednesday. The service will be open to the public and held the day after Young is to lie in state at the U.S. Capitol. Great Falls is near Washington, D.C. Young, who died on Friday at age 88, was the longest-serving Republican in U.S. House history. He had held Alaska’s lone U.S. House seat since 1973.
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