Announcing the arrangements on behalf of White's family, Gov. Greg Abbott said his predecessor's funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Second Baptist Church in Houston.
White, his casket draped in a Texas flag, was a lawyer and Democrat who served one term as Texas governor, from 1983 until early 1987.
White passed away Saturday after a long battle with kidney cancer. Luci Baines Johnson, a daughter of ex-President Lyndon B. Johnson, said White may have retired from public office but never retired from public service.
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Among those paying their respects were two former Texas governors-former President George W. Bush and current U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.
White's son called him the "life of the party" but also a man of great faith - someone who loved his friends from his political days, many of whom are on the pallbearers list today. Five years later, he was elected as Texas' attorney general, and then in 1982 defeated Republican incumbent Bill Clements for the governorship. There, he will lay in state in the Capitol rotunda from noon until 3 p.m.
Bush kept his remarks brief, noting White could rumble politically, but always retained his kindness and humility.
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