{"id":16616,"date":"2025-10-23T00:38:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16616\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T00:38:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T00:38:56","slug":"sylvester-turners-personal-items-to-be-auctioned-at-houston-estate-sale-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/16616\/","title":{"rendered":"Sylvester Turner\u2019s personal items to be auctioned at Houston estate sale \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DEspinoza_TravelFest_09292023-21.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-465818\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/DEspinoza_TravelFest_09292023-21.jpg\" alt=\"Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner at the Houston Travel Fest opening ceremony on September 29, 2023. \" width=\"3000\" height=\"2000\"   data-eio=\"p\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Daisy Espinoza\/ Houston Public Media<\/p>\n<p>Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner at the Houston Travel Fest opening ceremony on September 29, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>An estate sale will take place this weekend to auction off the personal items of late U.S. Rep. Sylvester Turner, the former state representative and Houston mayor who died earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>The estate sale will take place from 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Friday through Sunday. The sale is being conducted by Town and Country Estate Sales, and the address of the auction will be announced at 9 a.m. Thursday, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.estatesales.net\/TX\/Houston\/77081\/4689693\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the organizers<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Turner represented part of Houston in the Texas House for the better part of three decades before serving as the city\u2019s mayor from 2016-2024. He was then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/politics\/election-2024\/2024\/11\/05\/504734\/sylvester-turner-wins-full-district-18-term-sheila-jackson-lees-granddaughter-to-fill-rest-of-term\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elected to represent Texas&#8217; 18th Congressional District<\/a> in November 2024. He was in Congress only for a few months before his death at the age of 70 on March 5. <\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonpublicmedia.org\/articles\/news\/houston\/2025\/03\/05\/515275\/longtime-houston-mayor-sylvester-turner-dies-at-age-70-representatives-confirm\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Longtime Houston Mayor and Congressman Sylvester Turner dies at age 70<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Join us for a special sale celebrating Houston history,&#8221; the auction website states. &#8220;Don&#8217;t miss this rare opportunity to browse the personal collection of Houston&#8217;s longtime mayor Sylvester Turner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the organizers, the sale will feature furniture, artwork, books, figurines, awards and collectibles. <\/p>\n<p>The items include a Stacey Bayne &#8220;Soul Journeys&#8221; Nativity Set, busts of former President Barack Obama and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., MVP Tennis Shoes autographed by former Houston Rockets star James Harden and first-edition books that are autographed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daisy Espinoza\/ Houston Public Media Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner at the Houston Travel Fest opening ceremony on September&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16617,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[3766,13182,56,58,57,9618,66,223,13183,13184,7839],"class_list":["post-16616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-of-houston","tag-estate-sale","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-james-harden","tag-local","tag-news","tag-president-barack-obama","tag-sylvester-turner","tag-texas-18th-congressional-district"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16616\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}