Associated Press
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) - Former Mississippi first lady Carroll Waller, who led efforts to restore the Governor's Mansion when her husband was in office, has died at age 87.
Her family says she died Tuesday at Manhattan Nursing Home in Jackson, after a lengthy bout with Alzheimer's disease.
Services are 2 p.m. Friday at First Baptist Church in Jackson
Democrat Bill Waller Sr. was governor from 1972-76.
Carroll Waller co-wrote "The History of the Mississippi Governor's Mansion," which helped raise money to restore the 1842 home. The Wallers lived there only a few months after it reopened.
She is survived by four sons, including Mississippi Supreme Court Chief Justice Bill Waller Jr.; two sisters and 14 grandchildren.
The former governor was 85 when he died in 2011. The Wallers' daughter, Gloria, died in 1981.
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