Nashville Banner - September 2, 1964
Services for Dr. James Henry White, 98, of 814 Glenn Avenue, will be at 2PM tomorrow at Waverly Place Methodist Church.
The Rev. R.L. Freeman will officiate, Masonic services and burial will be in Woodlawn Memorial Park. The body is at Cosmopolitan Funeral Home.
Dr. White died Tuesday night at Park View Hospital where he had been a patient for 2 weeks.
He was Nashville's oldest doctor of optometry, having practiced here for 57 years. In recent years he had been joined in partnership by two of his daughters, Dr. Callie Mae White and Dr. Thelma Rozelle Blevins, in a family office in the Vendome Building. He had gone to his office regularly until last June.
Dr. White was born to Jennie Pope and William H.White in McMinnville, TN, on August 26, 1866. He received a BA degree from Bert College in Spencer, TN. He taught school in both Warren and Wilson counties. He received his degree in optometry from Needles Institute in Kansas City, MO, and did post-graduate work at Ohio State University.
A Mason for 66 years, he was a member of Phoenix Lodge 131 and had earned the 32nd degree.
He was preceded in death by a son Freddie White and three wives: Martha Flaura Robertson White, Margaret Tassey White and Dot Smallwood White.
Survivors are wife, Crystal Hathaway White; daughters Callie Mae White, Thelma R. Blevins, Valeria Mayo (Orlando, FL), Flaura Green (McMinnville), Mrs. Fred E Gillum and Mrs Al W Misner.
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Parents:
William Henry White (1835 - 1921)
Mary Jane Pope White (1842 - 1917)
Spouses:
Martha Flaura Robertson White (1867 - 1896)
Margaret Tassey White (1875 - 1933)
Dottie Cecile Singer White (1890 - 1948)*
Children:
Valeria White Mayo (1892 - 1971)*
Flaura White Green (1896 - 1981)*
Siblings:
James Henry White (1866 - 1964)
Mary Louisa White Stipe (1867 - 1900)*
Ada White (1867 - 1943)*
Willie White Davis (1877 - 1950)*
Della White Clark (1879 - 1941)*
Owen Marcellus White (1882 - 1935)*
Charlie White (1895 - 1895)*
Laura Edith White Clark (1897 - 1954)*
*Calculated relationship
