Billy Graham laid to rest in casket handcrafted by Louisiana inmates

CNN)Their names were burned into the pine plywood casket Billy Graham was laid to rest on Friday.

"Hand crafted by Richard Liggett, Paul Krolowitz, Clifford Bowman."

They were hardened inmates at Louisiana State Penitentiary. In 2006, they built the plain wooden casket that would one day be lowered into the Charlotte, North Carolina, ground at the burial service for the globe-trotting preacher and spiritual confidant to American presidents.

More than 2,000 people attended Friday's private service for Graham, who was 99 when he died February 21 at his home in Montreat. Among the guests were President Donald Trump, the first lady and Vice President Mike Pence and his wife, Karen.

 

 

Source:  CNN