It troubles me to inform you that Sue White, the widow of our dear friend, Jack White, passed away on the 18th. I have very fond memories of her. She and Jack were our gracious hosts and tour guides when my wife and I visited them exactly 2 years ago today
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I am very grateful for having known them. RIP
Sue Benningfield White, 78, passed away Sunday, Nov. 18, 2012. Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in Mount Olivet Chapel. Interment: Mount Olivet Cemetery. Visitation: 9 a.m. Wednesday at Mount Olivet Funeral Home. Memorials: In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to The Woman's Club of Fort Worth or Fort Worth Public Library. Sue was born on Dec. 12, 1933, in Clarksville. She worked for Interstate Theaters for 35 years as an adminstrative assistant. She was a partner in VJS Co's, an advertising graphics firm. She retired from Stuart Bacon Advertising Agency. Sue was a charter member of Women of Motion Picture Industry, the Woman's Club of Fort Worth and the 62 Club. Sue was a longtime member of Meadowbrook United Methodist Church. She was always poised, elegant, loved to play bridge, was gracious to everyone and loved to read. She was a very articulate and accomplished businesswoman. She was preceded in death by her husband of 42 years, Jack D. White. Survivors: Eight nieces and nephews; and many dear friends.
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monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
Very sad! And how sad and true that close couples/partners often don't long survive after the death of their mate.....more of a broken heart and spirit, than things physical - though I don't pretend to know the details here. I know that Jack took great strength from Sue; and while she was not the researcher, he ran everything past her on what he was doing, and she was a great pillar of support for him. Both missed!
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
While visiting Fort Worth, Jack brought us to see the football stadium at his Alma Mater, TCU, which is the same college that was attended
by LaDanian Tomlinson, formerly of the San Diego Chargers. Jack was a big fan of LT and always said that the reason LT failed to receive
the Heisman Trophy, which the record reflects he had earned, was political.
In this picture we are at the stadium on one of the days it was being demolished. Jack wanted to take some photos of it for posterity as well
as to add to his remarkable Fort Worth History website.
My wife, Julie, took this picture of us after having asked Jack if he thought the "special settings" (whatever they were that she was trying to
use) would be OK. Just before she snapped the shot Jack said, "I hope you just left it on automatic because they're (Canon) real good at that
sort of thing these days." -- And, as it turned out, she did have it on automatic! -- But, note the expression on his face when he said it at that
moment when he knew it was too late to change! A perfect example of Jack White's classy, subtle, and always gentle sense of humor.
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And then there was the time that I attended my first Lancer Conference. Jack introduced me by saying: "I'd like you to meet Gerald Posner's
brother" to several of his friends, George Michael Evica, Peter Dale Scott, and Jim Marrs. He didn't fool them, but he did embarrass me--and it
was great fun.
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monk
"It is difficult to abolish prejudice in those bereft of ideas. The more hatred is superficial, the more it runs deep."
