{"id":66332,"date":"2025-11-26T19:11:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66332\/"},"modified":"2025-11-26T19:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-26T19:11:06","slug":"elzie-odom-memorial-set-for-arlington-city-hall-wednesday-nbc-5-dallas-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/66332\/","title":{"rendered":"Elzie Odom memorial set for Arlington City Hall Wednesday \u2013 NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Celebrations of the life and legacy of former Arlington Mayor Elzie Odom begin Wednesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/local\/elzie-odom-former-arlington-mayor-dies\/3945891\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a week and a half after his death at age 96<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Odom was the first Black mayor and first Black City Council member elected in Arlington, the area\u2019s third-largest city.<\/p>\n<p>He will lie in state at Arlington City Hall on Abram Street on Wednesday afternoon from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. during a public memorial.<\/p>\n<p>A visitation wake will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 28, at Mount Olive Baptist Church on Sanford Street. A homegoing celebration will be held on Saturday, Nov. 29, with visitation from 10 a.m. until noon at Mount Olive Baptist Church. The service will be at noon.<\/p>\n<p>In his honor, the city said its flag will remain at half-staff, and all lighted gateway monuments \u2014 including the towers in front of City Hall \u2014 will stay dark until his memorial service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Celebrations of the life and legacy of former Arlington Mayor Elzie Odom begin Wednesday, a week and a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66333,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[150,116,118,117],"class_list":{"0":"post-66332","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-arlington","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fort-worth-headlines","11":"tag-fort-worth-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66332","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=66332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}