Mrs. Cora White

Cora Lee Bitting White, 92, passed away Monday, March 7, 2011 at Oak Forest Health Center. She was born November 6, 1919 to the late Bud and Cora Bitting. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her son, Thomas Lee White, three brothers and three sisters. She is survived by four sons: Willie White, Jr., Sylvester (Ruby) Bitting, Sr., Bernard (Princilla) White, Sr., Richard Earl White, all of the city; two sisters: Gracie Stimpson and Carrie Ellis; eleven grandchildren; eighteen great grandchildren; a special God son, Anthony Parrott; several nieces and nephews; a host of family and friends.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, March 15 at New Jerusalem Baptist Church with Reverend Samuel Cornelius, officiating. The family will greet friends thirty minutes prior to the service and interment will be in Evergreen Cemetery.