Visitation for Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson begins
By Associated Press
Mar 21, 2018 9:32 AM CDT
FILE - In this Oct. 26, 2014, file photo, New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson sits on the sideline before the team's NFL football game against the Green Bay Packers in New Orleans. Visitation for Benson, who died last week, takes place Wednesday and Thursday at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans. A...   (Associated Press)

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The casket of New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson has been carried into a New Orleans seminary.

Benson's widow was among those accompanying Benson's body into Notre Dame Seminary. It will be there during two days of public visitation: Wednesday from 10 a.m. until 7 p.m. and Thursday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m.

A private funeral service is set for noon Friday at St. Louis Cathedral in the French Quarter.

The 90-year-old Benson's death was announced last Thursday. He had been hospitalized since Feb. 16 with flu symptoms.

Benson was a successful automobile dealer when he bought the NFL's Saints in 1985. Under his ownership, the team achieved its first winning seasons and a Super Bowl championship. He also was the owner of the NBA's New Orleans Pelicans.