Memorial service held for former Texas Gov. Mark White

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A memorial service to remember former Texas Gov. Mark White was held this morning with fellow former governor, Pres. George W. Bush, delivering the eulogy.

Bush 43 speaks at former Gov. White's funeral

The service was at 11 a.m. at Second Baptist Church in Houston.

White will then lie in state at the Capitol on Thursday before burial in the Texas State Cemetery.

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White, who served during the worst economic downturn in Texas in the oil bust of the 1980s, died Saturday at his Houston home.

He was the 43rd governor of Texas and had previously served as Texas Attorney General and Secretary of State.

Texas Gov. Mark White is shown November 1982.AP

Former Texas governors Dolph Brisco, left, Mark White and present Gov. Rick Perry, right, leave the memorial service for Lloyd Bentsen Tuesday, May 30, 2006 in Houston.AP

Two unidentified relatives of victims of the Delta flight 191 crash talk with Texas Gov. Mark White, center, at Dallas' Parkland Hospital, Aug. 3, 1985.AP

Presidential hopeful Gary Hart, D-Colo., visits with Texas Gov. Mark White, left, as Hart continued a two-day campaign swing through Texas, April 19, 1984 in Austin.AP

Former Texas governors, Mark White, left, and Dolph Briscoe, right, pose with Gov. Rick Perry in his office Wednesday, April 4, 2007, in Austin, Texas.AP

Texas Gov. Mark White was presented July 31, 1985 with a cowboy hat replica that J.R. Ewing wears on the television show "Dallas".AP

Texas Gov. Mark White gestures June 19, 1985 while speaking before the environment and public works in Washington.AP

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