Contributed by Jackye Penney

The Teague Chronicle newspaper - 05/1970 edition


LAST RITES HELD WEDNESDAY FOR ADOLPHUS H. WHITE

Funeral services were held Friday, May 1 at 4 pm at the Eighth Avenue Baptist
Church in Teague for Adolphus H. White, Jr., 67.  Interment was in Dew
Cemetery. 

Mr. White died Thursday April 30, in the Teague City Hospital following a
lingering illness. He was born April 7, 1903 in Dew and had resided here all of
his life.

Mr. White was a member of the Eighth Avenue Baptist Church. He was a retired
merchant.  

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Coy White of Dew; one daughter, Mrs. Dane Dull, of
Houston; one son, H.Z. White of Waco; four sisters, Mrs. W.A. Mainord of
Ontario, Oregon, Mrs. Jim Atchley of Dew, Mrs. W.H. Colson of Corpus Christi
and Mrs. L.D. Hartley of Dew; two brothers, J. H. White of Ravenden, Ark, and
E. C. White of Jacksonville, Texas; five grandchildren and two great
grandchildren.

Rev. Royce Sanders and Rec McKissack officiated at the services. Pallbearers
were Noble Lane, W.C. Barger, Rex Goolsby, Bill Lancaster, Estes Goulding, and
Leroy Senter.