Connecticut Lowers Flags To Half-Staff In Honor Of Nancy Reagan

FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Conn. -- Connecticut Gov. Dannel P. Malloy announced Monday that, in accordance with a proclamation from President Barack Obama, flags should be lowered to half-staff in honor of First Lady Nancy Reagan.

Flags will fly at half-staff in honor of Nancy Reagan.
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Jason Bisnoff

03/07/2016 4:00 p.m.

U.S. and state flags in Connecticut will fly at half-staff immediately until sunset on the day of her interment.

Reagan, 94, died Sunday, March 6, at her home in Bel Air, Calif. She was first lady from 1981 to 1989.

Her husband, President Ronald Reagan, died June 5, 2004, at the age of 93.

Her funeral will be held Friday at 2 p.m. EST, according to Melissa Giller, spokeswoman for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.

Reagan will lie in repose Wednesday and Thursday at the library before being buried Friday at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, Calif., next to her husband.

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