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Bessie White

Bessie White

Posted: Friday, December 19, 2008 12:32 pm

The Messenger. 12.19.08

Completed arrangements are being announced for Bessie B. White, 65, of Jackson, Mich., sister of Curtis White and aunt of Laura Spears, both of Union City. She died Dec. 15, 2008, at Alliance Hospital in Jackson, Mich.

Services will be noon Saturday at Lily Missionary Baptist Church in Jackson, Mich., with burial following there in Hillcrest Cemetery.

Friends may call at Patience-Montgomery Funeral Home in Jackson, Mich., 4-8 p.m. today. The family hour will be at the church beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.

She was born Oct. 13, 1943, daughter of the late Lola M. White.

She had been employed at Community Action Agency (Head Start) for 34 years and was a member of New Macedonia Church in Jackson, Mich.

She is also survived by six sons and two daughters-in-law, Melvin White, Robert and Andrea White, Barry White, Michael White, Darold and Corrine Goodloe and Ray Goodloe, all of Jackson, Mich.; four daughters and her son-in-law, Angela White, Sharon Goodloe and Janice and James Harris, all of Jackson, Mich., and Vernita Samantha White of Detroit; her sister, Lucille White of Jackson, Mich.; four other brothers and two sisters-in-law, Percy White, Silas and Anita White, M.C. White and Floyd White, all of Detroit, and Bessie White of Union City. 

She was also preceded in death by her sister-in-law, Sandra Faye White.