Ola Mae White

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Mrs. Ola Mae White, lovingly known as “Sister”, of Roanoke, Virginia and formerly of Chipley, went home to be with the Lord on Friday, December 18, in the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was 62 and a member of Bethel Star Missionary Baptist Church in Marianna.

Reposing at Christian Memorial Chapel, 5441 Cooper Street, Graceville.

Funeral services will be held Thursday, December 31, 11 a.m. at the Bethel Star Missionary Baptist Church in Marianna with Rev. George Williams officiating. She will be laid to rest in the Northside Cemetery in Chipley under the directions of Christian Memorial Chapel of Graceville.

Ola Mae was employed with West Point Stevens Plant in Chipley. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, Raymond Sr., and Annie Mae Byrd Sharpe, and most recently a sister, Katie Mae “Boosie” Sharpe-Dixon.

She is survived by her children: Patricia (Colbert) White-Boyd, Larry (Lynn) White, Casey White, Carla Bella, Kelly White, Jimmy White, Angel White and Keko White; siblings: Raymond Sharpe Jr., (Pastor Mary), Shirley Williams (Glenn), of Greenwood, Joyce Massaline, Alvin Sharpe, Sr., Eva Roulhac (Qualie Jr.), Rosetta Sheffield (Kennedy), Angela Sharpe, Annie Peterson; 19 grandchildren; numerous aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews, other relatives and friends.