Willie Faye White

Published 5:00 am Tuesday, October 25, 2005

Services for Willie Faye White, of McComb, are 2 p.m. today,Oct. 23, at Hartman Funeral Home, in McComb. Burial is at HollywoodCemetery with the Rev. Ed Sudduth officiating.

Visitation is today from 1 p.m. until time of services at thefuneral home.

Mrs. White, 95, died Oct. 20, 2005, at her home. She was born inBrookhaven, to Will Hope and Ossie Rawls Hope.

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She was a retired teacher, placement director and guidancecounselor for McComb School District. Mrs. White received her B.S.degree from Louisiana State University and her masters degree fromthe University of Southern Mississippi. She was a member of FirstBaptist Church of McComb. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma andKappa Delta Pi. She was a member of DAR and the Retired TeachersAssociation.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband, HowardWhite; and her brother, Rawls Hope.

Survivors are her nephews, John William Hope, of Panama City,Fla., and Lewis White, of Brandon; her nieces, Mary Massingale, ofTyler, Texas, Patsey Johnson, of Fort Worth, Texas, and LeonnaRuhmann, of New Ulm, Texas; cousin Betty Brister, of Summit; andher caregivers, Sarah Morris, Jerelyn Roberts, Mary Smith, MarshaMorris, Becky Blade and Marie Morris.

Special thanks to Dr. Luke Lampton and his staff at BeachamMemorial Hospital in Magnolia.