Obit of White, Jospehine (w300) - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 23 Sep 2004 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lawton Constitutuion 11 Sep 2004 Jospehine White AMARILLO, Texas -- Funeral for Josephine White, 96, Amarillo, Texas, will be at 1 p.m. Sunday in Elgin First Baptist Church with the Rev. Kenneth Hayes and Mike Barnett, minister, officiating. Mrs. White died Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2004, at her home. Burial will be at Elgin Memorial Cemetery under direction of Hodge Funeral Home, Fletcher. She was born July 31, 1908, in Tucumcari, N.M., to Bessie Lee and Arthur Wilkes Barnett, before New Mexico was a state. She received her bachelor's degree in teaching from East Central State College in Ada and a master's degree in education from Oklahoma University in Norman. She married Fredrick R. White. She taught school all her adult life, teaching Commerce, in her early career, and later in grade school. Her last teaching assignment was at Cleveland Elementary in Lawton. They moved to Elgin in 1965 and she was involved in First Baptist Church. Beginning in late 1995, she was cared for by her daughter, Charlotte Schoeter, in her home in Elgin and in Amarillo. In 1999, she made Amarillo her permanent home. Survivors include two daughters: Janet Johnston and Charlotte Schroeter, both of Amarillo; two sons: Houston White, Oklahoma City; and Joe Fred White, Fletcher; two half-brothers: Lawrence Barnett, Houston; and James Curtis Barnett, Oklahoma City; 14 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband; a sister, Bessie Lou Rennard; two brothers: Arthur and Herbert Barnett; and a half- brother, Clarence Barnett. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html