A memorial service Tuesday at the state Capitol remembered Missouri’s 47th and 49th governor – Kit Bond. The 86-year-old died last week.

The Missouri Capitol Rotunda filled with family and friends to honor Bond – a Republican who served as state auditor, governor, and U.S. Senator of Missouri from 1971 to 2011.

Former U.S. Attorney General John Ashcroft said Bond fulfilled his commitments.

“163 years ago, Abraham Lincoln at Gettysburg stated, ‘The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.’ Talk is cheap, but doing takes the devotion of one’s life and Kit Bond was a doer,” said Ashcroft.

He said Bond had the vision to see a “dynamic Missouri.”

“All of us owe the voters a massive thank you for having embraced Kit Bond as our l

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