Three days of services and events honoring the life of longtime U.S. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson will begin Monday with her lying in state at the statehouse in Dallas' Fair Park and end with a wake in south Dallas.
Mr. Johnson died on New Year's Eve at the age of 89.
President Joe Biden traveled to Dallas on Monday to attend Johnson's wake. The president praised her “immense courage” and called her “an icon and mentor to generations of public servants, through whom the legacy of her resilience and her purpose will live on.” I called it.
Eddie Bernice Johnson, also known as EBJ, lay in public Monday at the statehouse in Dallas Fair Park. A wake will be held Monday night at Concord Church. A funeral service will be held Tuesday morning at that church. The former congressman will be buried Wednesday at the Texas State Cemetery in Austin.
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A funeral procession carrying the casket of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrives at the Fair Park statehouse for interment, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Pallbearers carrying the casket carrying former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrive at the state capitol building in Fair Park for his lie-in at National Memorial on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Pallbearers carrying the casket carrying former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrive at the state capitol building in Fair Park for his lie-in at National Memorial on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Pallbearers carrying the casket carrying former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrive at the state capitol building in Fair Park for his lie-in at National Memorial on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Pallbearers carrying the casket carrying former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrive at the state capitol building in Fair Park for his lie-in at National Memorial on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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People pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Mourners arrive to pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Kirk Johnson (center, right) and his wife, Chief of Staff Sondra Johnson (center), arrive at the Fair Park statehouse as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state. Monday, January 8, 2024, Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Kirk Johnson (right) and his wife, Chief of Staff Sondra Johnson (center), pause in front of the casket of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson's mother, who lies in state as a state guest in the auditorium of the Fair Park statehouse. State Representatives on Monday, January 8, 2024, at Fair Park in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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People pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Kirk Johnson (front, right), son of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, visits the State Building in Fair Park where his mother lies and is comforted in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in Dallas. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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People pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Signatures from mourners are seen in the guest book at the Fair Park State Building as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson arrives in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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From left, Arthur Buzbee, Murat Goksigudem and Damarcus Oford during the state visit of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson at the Fair Park Statehouse in Dallas on Monday, January 8, 2024. Ms. Buzbee has been closely guarding Ms. Johnson's security for decades, with Mr. Goksigudem her former chief of staff and Mr. Offord her director of outreach. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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From left, Arthur Buzbee, Murat Goksigudem and Damarcus Oford during the state visit of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson at the Fair Park Statehouse in Dallas on Monday, January 8, 2024. Mr. Buzbee worked on Mr. Johnson's security detail for decades. Mr. Goksigdem was her former chief of staff and Mr. Offord was her director of outreach. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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People pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park State Building in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31st. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Southern Methodist University President R. Gerald Turner pays tribute to former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson as he lies in state Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, at the Fair Park State Building in Dallas.
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U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett pays tribute to her predecessor, former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson, during a state lie-in at the Fair Park Statehouse in Dallas on Monday, Jan. 8, 2024.
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People pay their respects as former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state as a state guest at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas, Monday, Jan. 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Richard Irvin Lee of Waco, Texas, grieves as the casket of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson lies in state Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31st. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
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Richard Irvin Lee of Waco, Texas, pauses in front of the casket of former U.S. Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson as he lies in state at the Fair Park statehouse in Dallas on Monday, January 8, 2024. Mr. Johnson, a pioneering figure in the North Texas Democratic Party, served 15 terms in the House of Representatives and died on December 31. (Smiley Poole/Dallas Morning News/Pool Photo)
Nurse Eddie Bernice Johnson was a trailblazer, helping bring hundreds of millions of federal dollars to the Dallas area as the area's most powerful Democrat. Johnson was the first nurse to be elected not only to Congress, but also to the Texas House of Representatives in 1972 and to the Texas Senate in 1986.
Johnson served in the U.S. House of Representatives for 30 years after becoming the first registered nurse elected to Congress and the first black head psychiatric nurse at a veterans hospital in Dallas. She went on to become the first black woman to chair the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and served as a leader in the Congressional Black Caucus. She stepped down in January after repeatedly postponing her retirement. Prior to Congress, she served as a member of the Texas State Legislature.
The family of a former Dallas congressman is negotiating with Baylor Scott & White, claiming medical neglect was the cause of her death.
Eddie Bernice Johnson at the dedication of the University of North Texas Satellite Office in Dallas on January 27, 2022. The satellite office is located across the street from the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in Dallas, where she previously worked as a nurse. I gave a lecture at
