Houston, World Pays Respect to Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee

People often correlate a person’s homegoing to how they lived their lives and who they touched while on Earth.

If that is the case, the late Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) touched people around the world because her funeral at Houston’s Fallbrook Church on Aug. 1 featured presidents, luminaries, celebrities and citizens who felt blessed to have had positive experiences with the congressperson from Houston’s 18th congressional district.

Jackson Lee’s former intern Isaiah Martin said, “It was a really beautiful service for the G.O.A.T. of Congress people. It was very dignified. It was like the homegoing for a queen. To see a former president on the stage, to see a future president on the stage, future speaker, former speaker, you had ambassadors there—it was regal.”

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