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Cornelius White Obituary
Alexandria, LA - Services for Cornelius L. White, Sr. will be at 11:00a.m. on Monday, December 28, 2020 at Robinson Family Mortuary, 1815 Military Hwy, Pineville, LA. Interment will be in Alexandria Memorial Gardens, Woodworth, LA.
Mr. White, 92, of Alexandria, LA, passed away on December 13, 2020 at Rapides Regional Medical Center, Alexandria, LA.
Cornelius was born on August 16, 1928 in New Zion, KY. After graduating high school, he received his first educational degree. He attained his Embalming degree in Cincinnati, OH. He joined the United States Air Force and became a jet engine mechanic. He was a Korean War veteran. He attended Southern University majoring in Biology. He married Johnetta Robinson and they had one son: Cornelius Lawson White, Jr. He started teaching in Marksville, LA, then moved to Jones Street Junior High and taught biology. Cornelius then became the first African American Assistant Principal at Brame Junior High, where he retired from the Rapides Parish School System. However, he never retired as a Funeral Director.
Mr. White was honored by Mayor Jacques Roy for is Civil and Education Services to the community along with Rapides Parish Police Jury and ABC/KLAX - Making a Difference. He was honored for 50 years of service in the Funeral Industry by the Kentucky Funeral Directors Association. He was a longtime member of Newman United Methodist Church, Southern University Alumni and Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He worked with the Volunteers of America, Alexandria-Kiwanis Int., and other Civil Organizations to make a difference in the community. He will be loved and missed by all who knew him. Cornelius knew Christ - the most important Man and God of all.
Mr. White is preceded in death by parents: Willis and Gonzella White and wife: Johnetta White.
Cornelius leaves to cherish his memories - son: Cornelius L. White, Jr. and a host of friends and former students.
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Robert & Cornelia Thrush
January 24, 2024
It would have been my pleasure if I could have known Mr. White. If he was anything like his son Jr. I know the world truly has lost a great warrior of a Christian man! May God Bless And Keep Cornelius Jr.
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Coast2Coast listener Robert Thrush Pinehurst, NC.
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Kay Lawson Adkins
February 3, 2021
Cornelius White Sr. was a kind, friendly, and loving servant of GOD. He touched people across the United States with his service to GOD, to his family, to his community, and to his nation. Whenever you talked with him, you usually heard a silent aura of peace. Cornelius will be missed because his willingness to teach, share, uplift, motivate, and inspire while continuing to work at age 92 as a funeral director will be paralleled by very few in today's society.
Cornelius, I will see you at the JESUS FAMILY REUNION!
Love,
Your Cousin,
Kay
Beverly Honore' Dunn
January 28, 2021
Mr. White was my favorite teacher ever. He constantly encouraged me to be the best I could be. He never met a student who couldn't understand. Even years after he taught me, he never failed to ask my parents how I was doing and what was I doing. He never forgot his students. Above all, he loved his wife and son. I often tell my children what a wonderful teacher I was Blessed to have. What an inspirational man. May he rest in Heaven!
Beverly Honore' Dunn
Rebecca Tisdale Welday
December 29, 2020
I taught at Brame for 23 years, and admired and respected Mr White immensely. He was a wonderful person to work for. I never knew anyone on our faculty that felt any different from me.
Mrs Tisdale
Mary Kennedy
December 28, 2020
He was one of the nicest men I have ever met in my life..his face radiated kindness. I was nursing when I first met him and he and Miss Johnett would visit a relative in long term care on an almost daily basis for some years..he would visit and talk to everyone. He was a first class gentleman, heaven has truly gained from this earthly loss. I am so sad to learn of his passing. My sympathies to his family and friends.
Shelia Seiss Parks
December 27, 2020
Rest in peace Me Smith. Sending my condolences to my classmate Cornelius Jr. May God bless you and your family! Shelia Seiss Parks
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