A funeral service will cap a week of emotional events to honor Turner, who died at age 70 on March 5 in Washington, D.C.
Services were held at the Church Without Walls, where the former mayor of Houston for eight years was a longtime member.
In 1987, a young Sylvester Turner knocked on the door of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s Houston chapter, seeking membership.
Turner, who spent nearly three decades in the Texas House and died last week, was remembered as a passionate Democrat ...