Mrs. Nellie Mae White, 69, of Bartlesville, died at 6:20
P.M. on Monday February 24, 2014 in Bartlesville.
Funeral Services will be held at 2:00 P.M. on Thursday
February 27, 2014, at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's
Witnesses, in Bartlesville with Brother Allen Birk
officiating. Cremation arrangements were under the
direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory.
Memorial contributions may be made in her memory to the
Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses c/o Mr. Allen Birk
1311 S.E. Harris Dr. Bartlesville, Oklahoma 74006.
Mrs. White was born on August 22, 1944 at Lewisville,
Arkansas to Lige and Margie (Sams) Marshall. She came
with her family to the Dewey area as a young girl where
she grew up and received her education, graduating from
Dewey High School in 1962. Shortly after her graduation
she was married to Ernest Lee White on July 6, 1963 at
Bartlesville, Oklahoma. They made their home for a few
years in Bartlesville until 1966 when they moved to Palo
Alto, California, where she worked as a medical
transcriptionist, until returning to Bartlesville in
1977. She worked in the home cleaning business for a
number of years until she retired in 2011. She was a
longtime member of the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's
Witnesses, where she was very active in the ministry of
her religion. She also helped to raise her brothers and
sisters, and her family and grandchildren and great
grandchildren. She also was dedicated to contributing to
St. Judes Medical research, and was a very strong and
generous woman whose life revolved around her family and
her grandchildren.
Mrs. White is survived by her two daughters, Charlisa
White of Bartlesville, and Zorina White of Beaverton,
Oregon, by a son Michael Lee White of Bartlesville and
his fiancé Mylisa Sayles White; who was like a daughter
to her, by four sisters, Elizabeth Davis of East Palo
Alto California, Willie Mae White, Mosezell Marshall,
and Geneva Ogans all of Bartlesville, by seven
grandchildren; Mischa White of Tulsa, OK. Tischa White
of Oregon, Devin D.J. White of Bartlesville, JaLysa
White of Del City, OK. Tyrell Pless, and Tashawn Pless,
both of Oregon, and Letesa Mae Sayles White of Norman,
OK., three great grandchildren DeJiah Jeree Nicole
White, Juma Jamari Alton Neal Hamadi, and Harmony Elise
Henderson.
She was preceded in death by her parents Lige
and Margie Marshall and by her husband Ernest Lee White
in 1992, by a son Ray Alton White in 1996, and by four
brothers, Vernell, Lige, Lee, and John Marshall.
Friends who wish may sign the online guest book and
leave condolences at
www.stumpff.org.
