COLUMBIA, S.C. - The lines weren't nearly as long Monday, but the people were just as wistful as they visited the Statehouse to say goodbye to former Sen. Strom Thurmond.

Hundreds turned out Sunday evening to pay their respects to the Southern icon and his family during a four-hour visitation. Thurmond died Thursday at age 100.

With family members absent Monday, the lines dwindled. However, smaller crowds gave people time to pause and bow their heads in silent prayer at the flag-draped casket or look at a display case holding Thurmond's military medals.

A military guard still stood watch just across from an oil painting of Thurmond in a suit several decades earlier.

Visitors came from everywhere. Ten condolence books listed mourners from as close as Columbia and Cayce and as far away as Beaufort and Gaffney.

Mildred Suber Tyler came from Prosperity. She met the former senator in the 1960s, when she belonged to the College Republicans at Columbia College.

"After that, he always remembered my name and always had something kind to say when he saw me," Tyler said.

Shelia Motts of Irmo came on her day off Monday with her son and mother.

"He did a lot for us - the common people - and we wanted to show, and I had to show, just how much he meant," Motts said.

Her mother quickly chimed in. "If South Carolinians wanted something done, they asked Strom," Belva Motts said. "He put South Carolina on the map."

The Rev. Tommy Browne dressed in a suit. He said he befriended Thurmond in the late 1940s, when the then-governor helped him get his notary public so he could continue to perform marriages.

"I lost my parents just months apart, one in 1947, the other in 1948," Browne said. "He gave me guidance and helped me through that time. He also helped me find my first church."

Thurmond was to lie in state from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. Tuesday. Then military pallbearers will take the coffin down the south steps of the Statehouse, where a horse-drawn caisson will lead the body about six blocks to the funeral at First Baptist Church of Columbia.

After the funeral, Thurmond will be buried in an Edgefield cemetery. All services are open to the public.