Ella Louise Lathan White

Funeral for Mrs. Ella Louise Lathan White, 78, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday, May 12, 2011, at Little Zion Baptist Church in Nacogdoches, Texas, with the Rev. Don Mills, church pastor, and grandson Mario White Ewell officiating. Burial will be in Pinegrove Cemetery. Mrs. White died May 6, 2011, in Willowbrook Nursing Center. Mrs. White was born July 7, 1932, in Nacogdoches, Texas. She was retired as a key punch supervisor after 21 years of service for the Army and Air Force Exchange in Dallas, Texas. She was affiliated with Little Zion Baptist Church. She was married for 23 years to the late Bobby Lee White. Survivors include a daughter, Debra "Debbie" White Upshaw and husband, Dolvin, of Douglass, Texas; son Bobby Lee White II of Fort Worth, Texas; three grandchildren, Mario White Ewell of Atlanta, Georgia, Phillip L. White of Longview, Texas, and Monica Denise Upshaw of Douglass, Texas; one sister, Peggy R. Boney of Houston, Texas; aunt, Eula Metcalf of Nacogdoches, Texas; best friends for more than 40 years, Leatha Clarkson of Dallas; daughter-in-law, Millie White of Longview, Texas; sisters-in-law, Viola Beall and Iola Anderson; brother-in-law, Connie J. White of Nacogdoches, Texas; and special nephew, Cleophus White of Dallas, Texas. Visitation will be from 4 until 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 11, followed by a wake from 6 until 8 p.m. at O. Sadler Chapel. Sadler Funeral Service.