More than 100,000 people–everyone from world leaders to ordinary folks bearing jelly beans– are expected to say farewell this week to former President Ronald Reagan, who will be buried Friday in California.

On an overcast Monday, soldiers and sailors carried Reagan's flag-draped coffin from a black hearse into the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in Simi Valley, Calif. for a family funeral service as a dignified, fragile Nancy Reagan, in a black suit and pearls, looked on. Sitting next to her grown children, Ron and Patti Davis, Mrs. Reagan held her daughter's hand during the short service. Afterward, she and her children approached the casket, and she patted it affectionately and laid her head on it for a moment. Mrs. Reagan then was held tightly by her daughter.

The Reagan family had traveled with the body of the nation's 40th president in a motorcade that went to the library from a Santa Monica funeral home. As the motorcade passed by, people waved from the sidewalks and lined overpasses. Traffic on the other side of the freeway slowed to a crawl.

After the ceremony, mourners began filing past the coffin in the library's lobby. Crowds gathered well before dawn Monday at a nearby community college so shuttle buses could ferry about 2,000 people an hour to the library. Amid tight security, public visitation will continue there through Tuesday evening, and upwards of 60,000 mourners are expected. Earlier, people had left remembrances at the funeral home—flowers, American flags, notes, stuffed animals and jars of jelly beans, Reagan's favorite candy.

Flags across the country flew at half-staff. Traders at the New York Stock Exchange Monday honored the former president's memory with two minutes of silence after the opening bell. The stock markets will close Friday, which President Bush designated a national day of mourning for Reagan's funeral ceremony. The markets have closed for past presidential funerals.

Reagan's vice president through two terms, former President George H.W. Bush, spoke of Reagan's kindness on NBC's "Today" show. "Reagan was unfailingly kind and courteous and thoughtful to the people around him," Bush said. "He'd no more walk by the guy running the elevator without asking him how his family was than fall off a cliff. And I think it was that kind, personal side that I think endeared him to the American people whether they were Republicans, Democrats, liberals or conservatives."

Reagan's body is scheduled to arrive at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland around 5 p.m., Wednesday for the first state presidential funeral in 31 years—since Lyndon Johnson's funeral in 1973. Security will be especially tight in the nation's capital; as many as 100,000 mourners are expected to pay their respects to Reagan.

A formal funeral procession will transport Reagan's body to the U.S. Capitol, with the casket being transferred to a horse-drawn caisson at 1600 Constitution Avenue, an area near the White House and the Washington Monument. A single drummer will accompany the casket. After a state funeral service, Reagan's body will lie in state for public visitation in the Capitol Rotunda, starting Wednesday evening until Friday morning. He is the ninth former U.S. president to receive that honor.

Government workers will have the day off Friday when Reagan's funeral ceremony takes place at 11:30 a.m. at the Washington National Cathedral. President George W. Bush will deliver the eulogy, and John Danforth, the former Missouri senator and ordained Episcopal minister, will conduct the service.

It is likely that former U.S. presidents will attend the service. Many world leaders are expected to attend Reagan's funeral, Some will likely travel directly from the G-8 summit of industrialized nations this week in Georgia. Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev will attend; he praised Reagan as a great leader who "kick-started the process, which ultimately put an end to the Cold War." Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher also is expected to attend. She called Reagan a "truly great American hero." German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and India's new Foreign Minister Natwar Singh will also go to the funeral, as will former Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone.

The pallbearers will be Michael Deaver, a former aide; Frederick Ryan, chief of staff from 1989 to 1995; talk show host Merv Griffin; Dr. John Hutton, Mr. Reagan's White House doctor and Charles Wick, head of the U.S. Information Agency under Reagan and a former Hollywood producer.

Reagan's body then will be flown back to California for a private burial at sunset on a hillside overlooking the Pacific Ocean at the library.