Last month, John Hager, father-in-law to Jenna Bush Hager and father to Henry Hager and the former Lieutenant Governor of Virginia, passed away. On with Hoda and Jenna Monday morning, Bush Hager shared the touching eulogy her husband Henry gave in his dad's honor this past weekend to her co-host, Hoda Kotb.
"I went down [to Virginia] for 24 hours to celebrate my father-in-law's life, it was really beautiful. It was just the five of us—my mother-in-law, Maggie, Henry, and his brother Jack and Katharine, his wife and me. At first I thought how sad, because this man knew a lot of people and he liked people a lot, but the fact that it was just us at the cemetery, outdoors, with a reverend who knew him felt really intimate and lovely and peaceful," Bush Hager said.
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