Former US President George HW Bush will be honoured with a state funeral at the National Cathedral in Washington.
The White House says Air Force One will be sent to Texas to transport Bush's casket to Washington, where his body will lay in state at the Capitol Rotunda where the public can pay their respects from Monday evening through Wednesday morning.
Bush will be buried in Texas on Thursday on the grounds of his presidential library at Texas A&M University in a family plot next to his wife, Barbara, who died seven months ago.
President Donald Trump, who plans to attend the funeral with first lady Melania Trump, also designated Wednesday as a national day of mourning, and ordered the lowering of the American flag for 30 days.
Bush, who died late Friday at age 94 - nearly eight months after his wife of 73 years died at their Houston home - was a congressman, an ambassador to the United Nations and envoy to China, chairman of the Republican National Committee, director of the CIA, two-term vice president and, finally, president.
The former president is being remembered as a man who sought a "kinder, and gentler nation".
He was the popular leader of a mighty coalition that dislodged Iraq from Kuwait, and was turned out of the presidency after a single term. Blue-blooded and genteel, he was elected in one of the nastiest campaigns in recent history.
He also presided over the end of the Cold War between the United States and the former Soviet Union.
George Herbert Walker Bush was many things, including only the second American to see his son follow him into the nation's highest office. But more than anything else, he was a believer in government service. Few men or women have served America in more capacities than the man known as "Poppy."
He called on Americans to volunteer their time for good causes - an effort he said would create "a thousand points of light".
This week he will return to Washington as a revered political statesman, hailed by leaders across the political spectrum and around the world as a man not only of greatness but also of uncommon decency and kindness.
