Funeral services for Virginia Ruth Harp White, age 96, of Mer Rouge, Louisiana,will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, October 22, 2020, at Mer Rouge United Methodist Church with Rev. Joanne Pounds officiating. Graveside services will
be held at Church of the Redeemer in Oak Ridge, Louisiana immediately after. Services are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.
Visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Mer Rouge United Methodist Church.
Virginia attended Northeast Junior College and was a proud member of the Warbonnets. She graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1940 with an arts education degree and taught school in the following years. She was married to
Charles Gilman White in 1948 in Bonita, Louisiana. She was a homemaker and devoted mother to her three children. Following her husband’s death, she was the Activities Director at The Oak Woods home for many years until her retirement.
She continued to volunteer there with TWIGS until her early nineties and was active in the Mer Rouge Methodist Church until her death. She was a skilled prankster with some that were years in the making and had a wonderful sense of humor. She delighted in scaring children at Halloween and made Easter egg hunting fun with her artfully decorated eggs. Her baking talents were amazing but she was known for her chocolate sheet cakes she made for many events and willed her sheet pan to a beloved niece. She loved gardening, could pull a Nash Buckingham on every snake, and maneuvered a John Deere lawn mower like a champ until she was 94. She was an ardent LSU football fan and rarely missed a game.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gilman White, and parents Emma Belle Dreher Harp and Daniel Robert Harp; sisters Wille Belle Rankin, Annie Vivian Evans, Mary Louise Hopkins; brothers Paul Harp, Charles Harp,
and Cecil Harp.
Virginia is survived by her daughter and favorite son-in-law Ann White Linstrom and Tom Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland; son Gil White, Jr of Mer Rouge, Louisiana; and Rives White and Kathleen White of Capitan, New Mexico; grandsons Robert and James Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland, Sam White and Wendel White of Capitan, New Mexico, and granddaughters Jessica White of Mer Rouge, Louisiana and Blair White Gavitt and Jon Gavitt of Lantana, Texas; and great grandchildren Harper Gavitt and Hayden Gavitt of Lantana, Texas.
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be held at Church of the Redeemer in Oak Ridge, Louisiana immediately after. Services are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.
Visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Mer Rouge United Methodist Church.
Virginia attended Northeast Junior College and was a proud member of the Warbonnets. She graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1940 with an arts education degree and taught school in the following years. She was married to
Charles Gilman White in 1948 in Bonita, Louisiana. She was a homemaker and devoted mother to her three children. Following her husband’s death, she was the Activities Director at The Oak Woods home for many years until her retirement.
She continued to volunteer there with TWIGS until her early nineties and was active in the Mer Rouge Methodist Church until her death. She was a skilled prankster with some that were years in the making and had a wonderful sense of humor. She delighted in scaring children at Halloween and made Easter egg hunting fun with her artfully decorated eggs. Her baking talents were amazing but she was known for her chocolate sheet cakes she made for many events and willed her sheet pan to a beloved niece. She loved gardening, could pull a Nash Buckingham on every snake, and maneuvered a John Deere lawn mower like a champ until she was 94. She was an ardent LSU football fan and rarely missed a game.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gilman White, and parents Emma Belle Dreher Harp and Daniel Robert Harp; sisters Wille Belle Rankin, Annie Vivian Evans, Mary Louise Hopkins; brothers Paul Harp, Charles Harp,
and Cecil Harp.
Virginia is survived by her daughter and favorite son-in-law Ann White Linstrom and Tom Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland; son Gil White, Jr of Mer Rouge, Louisiana; and Rives White and Kathleen White of Capitan, New Mexico; grandsons Robert and James Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland, Sam White and Wendel White of Capitan, New Mexico, and granddaughters Jessica White of Mer Rouge, Louisiana and Blair White Gavitt and Jon Gavitt of Lantana, Texas; and great grandchildren Harper Gavitt and Hayden Gavitt of Lantana, Texas.
Contributor: Ronnie Ainsworth
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Funeral services for Virginia Ruth Harp White, age 96, of Mer Rouge, Louisiana,will be held at 10:00 AM, Thursday, October 22, 2020, at Mer Rouge United Methodist Church with Rev. Joanne Pounds officiating. Graveside services will
be held at Church of the Redeemer in Oak Ridge, Louisiana immediately after. Services are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.
Visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Mer Rouge United Methodist Church.
Virginia attended Northeast Junior College and was a proud member of the Warbonnets. She graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1940 with an arts education degree and taught school in the following years. She was married to
Charles Gilman White in 1948 in Bonita, Louisiana. She was a homemaker and devoted mother to her three children. Following her husband’s death, she was the Activities Director at The Oak Woods home for many years until her retirement.
She continued to volunteer there with TWIGS until her early nineties and was active in the Mer Rouge Methodist Church until her death. She was a skilled prankster with some that were years in the making and had a wonderful sense of humor. She delighted in scaring children at Halloween and made Easter egg hunting fun with her artfully decorated eggs. Her baking talents were amazing but she was known for her chocolate sheet cakes she made for many events and willed her sheet pan to a beloved niece. She loved gardening, could pull a Nash Buckingham on every snake, and maneuvered a John Deere lawn mower like a champ until she was 94. She was an ardent LSU football fan and rarely missed a game.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gilman White, and parents Emma Belle Dreher Harp and Daniel Robert Harp; sisters Wille Belle Rankin, Annie Vivian Evans, Mary Louise Hopkins; brothers Paul Harp, Charles Harp,
and Cecil Harp.
Virginia is survived by her daughter and favorite son-in-law Ann White Linstrom and Tom Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland; son Gil White, Jr of Mer Rouge, Louisiana; and Rives White and Kathleen White of Capitan, New Mexico; grandsons Robert and James Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland, Sam White and Wendel White of Capitan, New Mexico, and granddaughters Jessica White of Mer Rouge, Louisiana and Blair White Gavitt and Jon Gavitt of Lantana, Texas; and great grandchildren Harper Gavitt and Hayden Gavitt of Lantana, Texas.
Contributor: Ronnie Ainsworth
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be held at Church of the Redeemer in Oak Ridge, Louisiana immediately after. Services are under the direction of Cox Funeral Home.
Visitation will be Wednesday evening from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM at the Mer Rouge United Methodist Church.
Virginia attended Northeast Junior College and was a proud member of the Warbonnets. She graduated from LSU in Baton Rouge in 1940 with an arts education degree and taught school in the following years. She was married to
Charles Gilman White in 1948 in Bonita, Louisiana. She was a homemaker and devoted mother to her three children. Following her husband’s death, she was the Activities Director at The Oak Woods home for many years until her retirement.
She continued to volunteer there with TWIGS until her early nineties and was active in the Mer Rouge Methodist Church until her death. She was a skilled prankster with some that were years in the making and had a wonderful sense of humor. She delighted in scaring children at Halloween and made Easter egg hunting fun with her artfully decorated eggs. Her baking talents were amazing but she was known for her chocolate sheet cakes she made for many events and willed her sheet pan to a beloved niece. She loved gardening, could pull a Nash Buckingham on every snake, and maneuvered a John Deere lawn mower like a champ until she was 94. She was an ardent LSU football fan and rarely missed a game.
She is preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gilman White, and parents Emma Belle Dreher Harp and Daniel Robert Harp; sisters Wille Belle Rankin, Annie Vivian Evans, Mary Louise Hopkins; brothers Paul Harp, Charles Harp,
and Cecil Harp.
Virginia is survived by her daughter and favorite son-in-law Ann White Linstrom and Tom Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland; son Gil White, Jr of Mer Rouge, Louisiana; and Rives White and Kathleen White of Capitan, New Mexico; grandsons Robert and James Linstrom of Silver Spring, Maryland, Sam White and Wendel White of Capitan, New Mexico, and granddaughters Jessica White of Mer Rouge, Louisiana and Blair White Gavitt and Jon Gavitt of Lantana, Texas; and great grandchildren Harper Gavitt and Hayden Gavitt of Lantana, Texas.
Contributor: Ronnie Ainsworth
(47169462)
• [email protected]
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