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Submitted: 11/11/08 • Approved: 8/14/13 • Last Updated: 8/17/13 • R99313-G99313-S3
Pearl Jane Bench White
Wife of Major Eugene "Gene" White
Daughter of John C. & Rebecca Elizabeth Newton Bench
December 12, 1911--February 2, 1991
Married July 1, 1929
Obituary
Pearl J. White, a Baxter County native, died Saturday (Feb 2, 1991) at Baxter County Regional Hospital. Mrs. White, a resident of Norfork, was 79.
Her funeral will be held at 2PM today at Lone Rock Baptist Church with the Rev. Troy Melton officiating. Burial will be at Burnt School House Cemetery.
She is survived by four sons, Charles White of Norfork, Everett White, Ronnie White and Donald White all of Mt. Home; four daughters, Maxine Henderson of Norfork, Safrine Ellison of Billings, MO and Betty Jean Layton and Evelyn Layton, both of Yellville; one brother, Corbit Bench of Norfork; two sisters, Collie Wilbur of Norfork and Nellie Martin of Dexter, MO; 29 grandchildren; 41 great grandchildren; four great great grandchildren; and many nieces and nephtew.
She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband Eugene White, two sons and two daughers.
Pallbearers are Randy Willhoyt, Wayne Henderson, Gerald Henderson, David Hurst, Tim Hurst and Terry Layton.
Honorary pallbearers are Shawn White, Rickie Layton, Clifford Hurst and James Wilburn.
(From the files of Max Parnell.)
(Photo courtesy of Ruth Freeman Franklin & Mary Lou Freeman Yoder)
Contributed on 11/11/08 by maxparnell
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