ALBANY, Ga. - The president sent his condolences and the governor sat in the audience today as Albany mourned Alice Hawthorne, the woman killed in the bomb blast at Atlanta's Centennial Olympic Park last week. "Our hearts go out to you and the family," President Clinton said in a letter read during the first of two funerals. He promised that authorities will find the person responsible for her death.

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Gov. Zell Miller was in the church, as was Andrew Young, the former Atlanta mayor who is co-chairman of the Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games.

Mrs. Hawthorne's 14-year-old daughter, Fallon Stubbs, who was injured in the blast, still showed signs of the injury as she walked past her mother's coffin, sobbing loudly. She had a splint on one of her fingers and a bandage above her right knee. About 1,100 people filled Mount Zion Baptist Church for the service, which lasted about 90 minutes.

A wake was to follow tonight in Douglasville, and a second funeral is set for Saturday in Atlanta.

Albany Mayor Tommy Coleman told the mourners Mrs. Hawthorne's death was a blow to the city.

"There has been a lot written about her in the last week, but we didn't need the media to tell us about Alice Hawthorne. This community, this country, shares your loss. We condemn the act that took Alice Hawthorne," he said.

Mrs. Hawthorne, an entrepreneur and chamber of commerce volunteer, was killed by shrapnel last Saturday when a pipe bomb laden with nails and screws exploded in the park. A Turkish television cameraman rushing to the scene died of a heart attack, and more than 100 others were injured.

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