San Francisco prepares to say final farewell to Mayor Ed Lee

SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Thousands are preparing to say their final goodbyes to the late Mayor Ed Lee on Sunday during a memorial service.

On Friday people waited in a line half a block long outside San Francisco City Hall to view the closed casket of the late Mayor Ed Lee.

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Several declined to be interviewed, saying they were city or state workers who just wanted to say goodbye to the boss one last time.

Randolph Harris, a 56-year-old retired city and county social services worker, says he was "devastated" to learn of the death of Lee, who died Tuesday after collapsing at a supermarket Monday night.

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Matthew Saccomanno, a 20-year-old nursing student at San Francisco State University, called the mayor "a great man with a great heart." He did not know Lee personally but says his brother works at a nearby diner that the mayor frequented.

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