Lulu Ruth Wilson White

Submitted by: Jo Jo

Lulu Ruth [Wilson] White, 79, a member of the Delaware Indian Nation and a Native area resident, died at 7:45 a.m. Monday in the Heritage House, where she had been a resident since May 1978.

Services will be 10 a.m. Friday in the Memory Chapel of Arnold Moore Funeral Residence. The Rev Bill Benefield and Rev. Ben Benefiel will be officiants. Committal prayers and interment will be in White Rose Cemetery. Directed by Arnold Moore Funeral Service.

Mrs. White was born on a farm in Washington County, west of Ramona. She was the daughter of Pioneer settlers Lilly McEwin Wilson and Denny Wilson. She began her education in the country school west of Ramona and completed her schooling at Riverside Indian School at Anadarko.

She married the late John William White, May 5, 1924 in Bartlesville where they lived until moving to Pampa, Texas in 1926. Mr. White followed oilfield development in Texas until they returned to Washington County in 1948. Mr. & Mrs. White made their home on a farm northwest of Copan, moving to Bartlesville in 1959.

Mr. White preceded her in death in 1964.

Mrs. White continued her residence in Bartlesville until she became a resident of Heritage House in 1978.

Mrs. White will lie in state in the drawing rooms of Arnold Moore Funeral residence where friends may call for visitation until the service hour on Friday.

Survivors include two sons, George White of Broken Arrow and RObert Barnes of Lawton; four daughters, Mrs. Byron (Chyneth) Hobson, 517 S Penn, Mrs. Raymond (Lola) Douglas, 1622 S Oak, Mrs. M. S. (Ellen) Garner of Bartlesville and Mrs. Lawrence (Violet) Wortman of Newkirk; one sister, Mrs. Rose Goodman of Ramona; 16 grandchildren; 31 great-grandchildren and eight great-great-grandchildren.

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