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By TIMES WIRES
Published January 3, 2007

Ford's children

Michael Gerald Ford, 56, director of the office of student development at Wake Forest University

John (Jack) Gardner Ford, 54, entrepreneur in San Diego

Steven Meigs Ford, 50, actor, board of directors at Ford Museum

Susan Elizabeth Ford Bales, 49, author, chairman of the Betty Ford Center

Honorary pallbearers at Tuesday's service

Martin Allen (chairman of Ford Foundation board of trustees)

James A. Baker III (Ford's undersecretary of commerce; secretary of state under former President George Bush)

Robert Barrett (aide)

James Cannon (author of book about Ford)

Kenneth Chenault (CEO, American Express)

Vice President Richard B. Cheney (Ford's chief of staff)

William Coleman (Ford's secretary of transportation)

Richard DeVos (founder of Amway, Ford family friend)

Robert Dole (U.S. senator, Ford's running mate in 1976)

Richard Ford (Ford's half-brother)

Alan Greenspan (economic adviser to Ford, later chairman of the Federal Reserve)

Robert Hartmann (aide)

Carla Hills (Ford's secretary of housing and urban development)

Henry Kissinger (Ford's secretary of state)

Jack Marsh (aide)

Paul O'Neill (worked in U.S. budget office during Ford's presidency; secretary of treasury under President Bush)

Donald Rumsfeld (Ford's secretary of defense)

Brent Scowcroft (Ford's national security adviser)

Sanford Weill (former CEO of Citigroup)

Frank Zarb (energy adviser to Ford)

A quiet homage

- Ford asked legendary Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler to be an honorary pallbearer for today's service in Grand Rapids, Mich., but he died in November. In his honor, officials plan to drape a University of Michigan banner across a seat Schembechler would have occupied at Grace Episcopal Church.

- The jet flying Ford's casket from Washington to Michigan on Tuesday did a "fly-over" of the Big House, the University of Michigan's football stadium, in Ann Arbor on its way to Grand Rapids.

Today's schedule

1 p.m.: Ford's remains will be taken from his presidential museum in Grand Rapids, Mich., to Grace Episcopal Church for a private funeral service at 1:30 p.m.

3:30 p.m.: Private interment service and burial at Ford's presidential museum.

The ex-presidents

- There are three living former presidents: Jimmy Carter (82), George Bush (82) and Bill Clinton (60).

- The last time there were no living former presidents occurred when Lyndon Johnson died in January 1973 and lasted until Richard Nixon resigned in August 1974.

- Periods featuring the most living former presidents:

2001-04: Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton.

1993-94: Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George Bush.

1861-62: Martin Van Buren, John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan.

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