ATLANTA (AP) – Ten months after her death, Coretta Scott King is in her final resting place. The wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. has been moved from across the grounds of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change to a grave next her husband. Workers replaced the single crypt _ surrounded by a reflecting pool _ that had housed Martin Luther King Jr.’s body with a larger one that holds both Kings. Coretta Scott King, 78, died Jan. 30 of complications from a stroke and ovarian cancer. This is technically the third grave for Martin Luther King Jr., who was assasinated in Memphis in 1968. He was originally buried at South-View Cemetery in Atlanta near the graves of his parents and maternal grandparents. When Coretta Scott King built the King Center, she moved her husband’s body to the center grounds next to Ebenezer Baptist Church, where he preached. After her death, her body rested in a temporary grave near the reflecting pool until the single crypt could be built.
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