Tuesday's funeral service for former U.S. Senator Thad Cochran is planned for 11 a.m. today at Northminster Baptist Church in Jackson.
Cochran was elected to the U.S. House in 1972 and to the Senate in 1978. As chairman of the Appropriations Committee, he steered billions of dollars to Mississippi for universities, agriculture and Hurricane Katrina recovery. He retired in 2018.
Cochran died Thursday, May 30 at a veterans' nursing home in Oxford, Mississippi. He was 81.
