Queida Jo White

The Funeral Services celebrating and honoring the life of Queida Jo White, 93, of Enid will be held at 2:00 P.M. Saturday July 20, 2019 in the First Baptist Church of Okeene with Pastor Gaylon Cox officiating. Burial will follow in the Roselawn Cemetery in Okeene, OK. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings Funeral Home.

Queida Jo White passed away July 16, 2019, at her home.  She was born December 2, 1925, in Goltry, Oklahoma, to Ferdinand and Eva Springer.  She graduated from Okeene High School, in Okeene, Oklahoma, and married Harold Melvin White, of Okeene, on December 16, 1944.  Queida Jo became a believer in Jesus after her marriage and was an active member of First Baptist Church, Okeene, where she taught Sunday School, GAs, and Vacation Bible School, and for whom she made innumerable cookies and pitchers of Kool-Aid.  She was a lifelong gardener who produced gallons of sand plum jelly and canned 104 quarts of green beans every year so there would always be two servings per week.  She was a Blue Ribbon Whea Esta winner for her bread, and the number of birthday cupcakes she made for six children’s school classes must be legion.  Among her many skills both practical and beautiful, she drove the wheat truck, cooked, baked, and sewed; she loved to fish; and she was an expert butcher of chickens, as her grandchildren well remember.  As anyone who knew her will agree, she epitomized the highly praised woman in Proverbs 31: not only was she industrious, careful, wise, and fair, but she was also unfailingly kind, compassionate, genuine, and honest.  She lived a life of excellence, of unstinting service to God and to others, and she will be deeply missed.

Queida Jo is preceded in death by her parents; her sisters, Lois Karbs and Ines Rexroat; her husband; and her son, Virgil Benton White.  She is survived by her daughters, Peggy Ann Tampkins (Gilbert), Jayne Marie Spencer (Gary), Eva Jean Hill (Larry), Evelyn Fay Bergdall (Tim), and Lora Lee Jacks (Don); and by twenty-two grandchildren, thirty-four great-grandchildren, and fifteen great-great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Baptist Children’s Home and to the Salvation Army.

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