Rell will lie in state at the Capitol on Dec. 3 before her funeral at the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in Hartford.

Former Gov. M. Jodi Rell will lie in state at the state Capitol on Tuesday, Dec. 3 and her funeral will be held in Hartford later in the day, according to the governor’s office. M. Jodi Rell died on Wednesday,

Former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell died on Wednesday after a brief illness, according to her family. They said she died at a Florida hospital. She was 78 years old.  Gov. Ned Lamont is calling for U.

She was lieutenant governor when her boss, Gov. John G. Rowland, resigned in a corruption scandal. The second woman to lead the state, she was later elected in her own right.

BROOKFIELD — Matt Grimes, former chairman of the local school board and Republican Town Committee, became emotional upon hearing the news Thursday morning that former governor M. Jodi Rell, a longtime Brookfield resident, died at 78 after a brief illness in Florida.

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Former Connecticut Gov. M. Jodi Rell, who became the state's second female governor when John Rowland resigned amid a corruption scandal, has died. She was 78. Rell died Wednesday following a brief illness at a Florida hospital, her family said in a statement released Thursday morning. Her husband died of cancer in 2014.

Former Connecticut governor M. Jodi Rell, who became the second female governor in state history after her predecessor resigned amid a corruption scandal, died Nov. 20. She was 78. She died at a Florida hospital following a brief illness,

M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut's second female governor who died last week at 78, will lie in state next week in the Capitol on Tuesday.

M. Jodi Rell, Connecticut's second female governor who died last week at 78, will lie in state next week at the Capitol.

Ned Lamont announced the details of the funeral services honoring former Gov. M. Jodi Rell. Rell died last Thursday following a brief illness, according to her family. She served as governor from 2004 to 2011.