Kathryn Limbaugh announced on Monday that there will be a virtual memorial service for her late husband, the conservative icon of radio Rush Limbaugh, in the coming weeks.
“We are in the early stages of planning a celebration of life that can be seen by all audiences and friends and family at some point in the near future. We don’t have an exact date yet, we are working on part of the logistics, “she said, noting that the virtual ceremony was due to the coronavirus pandemic.
In Monday’s edition of “The Rush Limbaugh Show”, Kathryn Limbaugh discussed how she met and married Rush and how her initial impression of him did not match the way he was portrayed in the media.
She then received calls from former listeners on the program, who discussed the connections he made with them over the radio.
“We had someone who could help us to feel the words he said and then we could put that into our everyday lives,” said one person on the phone. “He made us feel like he was us.”
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Rush Limbaugh died on Wednesday at the age of 70 from complications from lung cancer. Presenter of “The Rush Limbaugh Show” since 1988, he has become one of the most listened to radio personalities in the country and one of the most influential figures in modern conservatism.
Tributes poured in shortly after his death, with even former President Donald Trump breaking weeks of public silence to praise him. Trump gave Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom last year, shortly after he made his diagnosis public.
Former Vice President Mike Pence said that Limbaugh inspired him to go on the radio in Indiana, which he used as a springboard to run for the House of Representatives and become Indiana’s governor and eventually Trump’s vice president.
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Limbaugh’s cutting injury earned him several detractors from the left as well, and even among some conservatives who did not like his type of politics.