Hank Aaron funeral service

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A private funeral service for Hank Aaron will be held Wednesday at Friendship Baptist Church in Atlanta

Aaron will be buried at historic South-View Cemetery, the city’s oldest Black cemetery, where he will be interred alongside civil rights leaders such as John Lewis, Julian Bond and Martin Luther King Sr.

The baseball legend died in his sleep from natural causes last week at the age of 86.

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