Blues legend B B King laid to rest

May 31, 2015 10:23

A funeral for blues icon BB King was held at the Bell Grove Missionary Baptist Church in his "spiritual hometown" of Indianola, Mississippi.

Hundreds of fans including Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant paid their final respect to the late blues icon before he was laid to rest, reported Ace Showbiz.

"For those of us here in Indianola and around the world, BB King is a legend, an icon, a musical giant, a world class entertainer," Rev Herron Wilson delivered the eulogy. "But to those of you seated before me, he is family and for that reason, we and the world extend our deepest sympathy to you."

Mississippi Congressman Bennie Thompson read a letter from President Barack Obama. "The blues has lost its king and American has lost a legend," Obama wrote.

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