Beginning Friday flags on state buildings will fly half-staff in honor of Lt. Gov. Sheila Oliver for the next month.
, with a three-day state funeral.
Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy said in a statement that Oliver's remains would lie in state in the Capitol rotunda Thursday, followed by a similar honor in her home county's historic courthouse on Aug. 11. A funeral is set for Aug. 12 in Newark's Basilica of the Sacred Heart.Oliver died Tuesday, just a day after the governor's office said she was admitted to a hospital with an undisclosed medical issue.
He's set to meet Friday with state government workers who worked alongside Oliver at the Department of Community Affairs, which oversees state aid to cities and towns among other duties, and where she was also the commissioner. Lieutenant governors in New Jersey assume a cabinet position in addition to their role as filling in for the governor if she or he is incapacitated or out of state.
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