Former President Donald Trump, (center R), stands with his wife Melania, (2nd L), their son Barron, (center L), and father-in-law Viktor Knavs, as the coffin carrying the remains of Amalija Knavs, the former first lady's mother, is carried into the Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea for her funeral, in Palm Beach, Fla., on Jan. 18, 2024. Rebecca Blackwell/AP Photo
PALM BEACH, Fla.—Former First Lady Melania Trump on Thursday remembered her mother as “a ray of light in the darkest of days” during a funeral service at a church not far from the family’s Mar-a-Lago estate.
The former first lady said she always found peace in the presence of her mother, Amalija Knavs, 78, and that her mother was always there to listen.
