Obit of White, Ruby "Alice" - Caddo County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 23 Apr 206 Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Resthaven Memory Gardens--OKC OK White, Ruby "Alice" RUBY 'ALICE', formerly of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, died Thursday at Berkshire Medical Center in Pittsfield, Massachusetts after a long illness. She moved to Massachusetts in September of 2001 to be close to family. Born in Kenefic, Oklahoma on January 7, 1920, she was the daughter of Tom and Lydia Wade. After graduating from the Kenefic Public School in 1937, she received her Bachelor of Science degree from Southeastern State University and her Masters of Education from the University of Oklahoma. She taught in the public schools in Kenefic, Blue, Fox, Guymon, Lindsay and Pauls Valley; as well as many years in Oklahoma City. During her career as an educator she also coached girls' basketball and was the President of the Oklahoma City Classroom Teachers' Association. After her retirement, she continued to be active in the Oklahoma Educators Association. The Oklahoma Retired Educators Association honored her in 1993 as a 'Very Important Member,' publishing her autobiography in their yearly publication. She was an avid sports fan, reader, Bridge player, and highly accomplished seamstress, as well as a long-time Sunday school teacher and member of South Lee United Methodist Church and Lambuth United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City. She was the President of both the Capitol Hill Lioness Club and the Nouveau Livre Book Club, as well as Secretary of Delta Kappa Gamma. Her husband, the former Oklahoma County Superintendent of Schools, James Phillip White, died in 1994. She was also predeceased by her parents, Tom and Lydia Wade; and her brother, Robert Wade. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Dr. Alice A. Jenkins and Dr. Douglas J. Jenkins of Adams, Massachusetts, as well as three sisters, Eugenia Roper of Oklahoma, Mildred Brown of Illinois, and Eleanor Wilson of California. She leaves many loving nieces and nephews along with several grandnieces and grandnephews. In lieu of flowers, please send donations in her memory to Hospice of Oklahoma County, 4334 N.W. Expressway, OKC, OK. 73116. Visitation will be from 7:00 P.M. to 8:00 P.M. Wednesday, September 4, 2002 at the funeral home. Services to celebrate the life of Alice White will be conducted Thursday September 5 at 2:00 PM, at the South Colonial Chapel. Burial will follow in the family plot in Resthaven, Oklahoma City. VONDEL L. SMITH & SON MORTUARY 6934 S. Western 634-1439 Published in the Oklahoman on 9/2/2002. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Caddo County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/caddo/caddo.html