Connecticut people say farewell to Mrs. Grasso

Officials and others were paying their last respects to former Gov. Ella Grasso, who was lying in state here before burial today (Feb. 9) at her hometown , Windsor Locks. Mrs. Grasso, who passed on Thursday after a prolonged illness forced her to resign New Year's Eve, was the first woman in the n ation elected governor in her own right.

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