This 2006 photo released by ABC shows "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, right, with her mother Lucimarian Roberts on the set in New York. Jeffrey W. Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, said 88-year-old Lucimarian Roberts died Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. ABC's Facebook page said Robins traveled "home to Mississippi just in time to see her." The death came on the same day Roberts said goodbye to her co-workers and audience before starting medical leave for a bone marrow transplant. Her departure had been set for Friday. But in a last-minute change of plans she told her viewers she was leaving a day early to visit her ailing mother. WABC-TV said Lucimarian Roberts was the first African-American to head Mississippi's board of education. She also collaborated with her daughter on a book titled, "My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith." (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)
This 2006 photo released by ABC shows "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts, right, with her mother Lucimarian Roberts on the set in New York. Jeffrey W. Schneider, senior vice president of ABC News, said 88-year-old Lucimarian Roberts died Thursday, Aug. 30, 2012. ABC's Facebook page said Robins traveled "home to Mississippi just in time to see her." The death came on the same day Roberts said goodbye to her co-workers and audience before starting medical leave for a bone marrow transplant. Her departure had been set for Friday. But in a last-minute change of plans she told her viewers she was leaving a day early to visit her ailing mother. WABC-TV said Lucimarian Roberts was the first African-American to head Mississippi's board of education. She also collaborated with her daughter on a book titled, "My Story, My Song: Mother-Daughter Reflections on Life and Faith." (AP Photo/ABC, Donna Svennevik)
GULFPORT, Miss. (AP) ? Hundreds of people waited in line for an hour or more to pay their respects to the late Lucimarian Roberts, a leader on Mississippi's Gulf Coast for more than 40 years and the mother of ABC's "Good Morning America" co-host Robin Roberts.
Bradford-O'Keefe Funeral Home employees tell the Sun-Herald (http://bit.ly/RKl7yO) that at least 700 people came to the wake Tuesday evening.
A private funeral is scheduled Wednesday, with burial at the Biloxi National Cemetery next to her husband, Col. Lawrence Roberts, who died in 2004.
Lucimarian Roberts was the first black to serve as chairman of the Mississippi State Board of Education.
She died Thursday at her home in Pass Christian at age 88.
Her children also include New Orleans anchor Sally-Ann Roberts of WWL-TV.
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Information from: The Sun Herald, http://www.sunherald.com
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