A touching photograph shows the 93-year-old former president gazing at his wife's casket.

George H.W. Bush kept his late wife company by sitting next to her casket as mourners came forward to pay their respects.

The former president, 93, sat in his wheelchair next to Barbara Bush’s closed casket at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston, Texas, on Friday, one day before her invitation-only funeral.

A touching photograph of the Bush patriarch depicted him gazing at the former first lady’s metallic casket which was decorated with pink, yellow and purple flowers.