COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sen. Lindsey Graham returned for the last time Wednesday to South Carolina, where powerful friends remembered him as someone who never stopped working for the state he loved. “Lindsey Graham understood the hopes and dreams and needs of his state and delivered every time,” said Republican Gov. Graham died suddenly on July 11 at his home in Washington, likely of an aortic tear , according to preliminary findings . Wednesday’s funeral was at First Baptist, the giant downtown church where his predecessor Republican Sen. Strom Thurmond was eulogized 23 years ago. Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Clyburn, the only remaining member of the South Carolina delegation in power when Graham arrived in Washington in 1995, read Psalm 23.