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B.B. King funeral to take place Saturday in Mississippi

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    The casket bearing the body of blues legend B.B. King is wheeled to a waiting hearse in front of the B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center after a day of public viewing on Friday in Indianola, Miss.

INDIANOLA, Miss. » Blues pioneer B.B. King is being remembered in the Mississippi Delta as a man whose talent was equaled by his generous spirit.

King’s funeral is Saturday in Indianola — the small town where he first gained attention as a young singer and guitarist who had already been a sharecropper and worked in a cotton gin.

One of his sons, Willie King of Chicago, says his father taught him to respond with love when others are angry.

Mike Doster of Nashville, who played bass in King’s band for 17 years, describes King as a good boss who was "very demanding but very fair."

King was 89 when he died May 14 at his home in Las Vegas. More than 4,000 people viewed his open casket Friday in Indianola.

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