Obit of White, Lulu Wilson - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Lovena Norton   (Deceased)   29 May 2005
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White, Lulu Wilson

Lulu Ruth [Wilson] White, 79, a member of the Delaware Indian Nation and a
native area resident, died at 7:45 a.m. Monday in the Heritage House,
where she had been a resident since May 1978.
Services will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Memory Chapel of Arnold Moore
Funeral Residence. The Rev Bill Benefield and Rev Ben Benefiel will be
officiants. Committal prayers and interment will be in White Rose Cemetery
directed by Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs White was born on a farm in Washington County, west of Ramona. She was
the daughter of Pioneer settlers Lilly McEwin Wilson and Denny Wilson. She
began her education in the country school west of Ramona and completed her
schooling at Riverside Indian School at Anadarko.

She married the late John William White, May 5, 1924 in Bartlesville where
they lived until moving to Pampa, Texas in 1926. Mr White followed
oilfield development in Texas until they returned to Washington County in
1948. Mr & Mrs White made their home on a farm northwest of Copan, moving
to Bartlesville in 1959.

Mr White preceded her in death in 1964.

Mrs White continued her residence in Bartlesville until she became a
resident of Heritage House in 1978.

Mrs. White will lie in state in the drawing rooms of Arnold Moore Funeral
Residence where friends may call for visitation until the service hour on
Friday.

Survivors include two sons, George White of Broken Arrow and RObert Barnes
of Lawton; four daughters, Mrs. Byron (Chyneth) Hobson, 517 S Penn, Mrs
Raymond (Lola) Douglas, 1622 S Oak, Mrs M S (Ellen) Garner of Bartlesville
and Mrs. Lawrence (Violet) Wortman of Newkirk; one sister, Mrs Rose
Goodman of Ramona; 16 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren and eight
great-great-grandchildren.
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