Jennifer Robb, left, places her head on the shoulder of Lucinda Robb as she holds her daughter, Madeline Florio, as they pause at the casket of former first lady Lady Bird Johnson inside the LBJ Library & Museum Friday in Austin, Texas. The widow of President Lyndon B. Johnson died Wednesday of natural causes at her Austin home. She was 94.

Austin, Texas ? Borne by a military honor guard and trailed by her two daughters and their husbands, Lady Bird Johnson on Friday was taken inside the presidential library named for her husband to lie in repose as admirers prepared to file in and pay respects to a woman one mourner described as “the true yellow rose of Texas.”

“She was such an inspiration to me growing up,” said Joyce Gordon, among the first in line 30 minutes before the public was allowed to see Johnson lying in repose at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library on the University of Texas at Austin campus. “I always thought she was the most gracious of all the first ladies.”

The body of Johnson, who died Wednesday at 94, was carried to the library in a natural wood casket that was covered with the former first lady’s beloved wildflowers.

Daughters Luci Baines Johnson and Lynda Robb marched a few steps behind, holding the hands of their husbands, Ian Turpin, of Austin, and former Sen. Charles Robb of Virginia.

For Rick Scott, vacationing in Texas from his home in El Dorado, Kan., it was an opportunity to witness history and reconnect with his youth.

“Growing up in the ’60s, the Kennedys and Johnsons were big parts of our lives,” said Scott, 53. “It seemed like a fitting place to be.”

The Texas vacation has become something of an homage to President John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier and Johnson’s New Great Society for Scott and his family. Early in the week, they visited Dealey Plaza, the site of JFK’s assassination in 1963.

Wednesday, they toured the LBJ Ranch and visited the former president’s boyhood hometown of Johnson City.

“It’s like witnessing history,” Scott said.