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defeated in a Senate re-election campaign. He waged a 1984 bid for president but was regarded a longshot from the outset.
• But McGovern didn't fade from a sense of service. He rededicated himself to a lifelong passion to fight world hunger. McGovern, once a global ambassador in the campaign to feed needy children, continued that cause well into his 80s. In 2008, he was awarded the World Food Prize along with former Republican Sen. Bob Dole, who like his compatriot faced defeat in a presidential race.
• Former state lawmaker Sandy Jerstad of Sioux Falls worked on McGovern's 1972 campaign but grew closer in recent years. They would talk over meals, including one in which he remarked on his life's unfinished business.
• "God's got to give me at least three more years," Jerstad said McGovern told her. "I've got to finish my project to get food to all the schoolchildren in the world."
• Jerstad visited McGovern days before he died Sunday and she told him people around the world love him.
• McGovern is to be buried at a later date at Rock Creek Cemetery in Washington.
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• McGovern service features local bluegrass band
• SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) -- If there was ever any question that former U.S. Sen. George McGovern danced to his own tune, the music played at his prayer service is proof.
• Instead of somber hymns, the bluegrass ensemble East of Westreville (WEST-uhr-ville) played folksier tunes such as "I Am a Pilgrim."
• Crowds paid their respects Thursday during a public viewing and prayer service at a Sioux Falls Methodist church. McGovern died Sunday at age 90 in hospice care. His funeral is to begin at 1 p.m. Friday at the Washington Pavilion.
• Former state Sen. Scott Heidepriem told the hundreds gathered at the Thursday service that East of Westreville was McGovern's favorite band.
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