Bertie Lee White age 82 of Livingston passed away November 7, 2009 in the Pine Ridge Nursing Home. Funeral services will be held in her honor at 10:00AM Tuesday November 10, 2009 in the Cochran Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dickey Boddy officiating. Burial will be at 4:30PM in the Mt. Bethel Cemetery in Gary, Texas. Vitiation will be Tuesday from 8:00AM until service time.

Bertie was born January 29, 1927 in Gary to parents Marcus Witherspoon and Alabama Byrd Witherspoon. She worked many years as a nurses aid. She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers and sisters Rosabelle Pass, Woolsey Witherspoon, Emma Joyce Powell, Burke Witherspoon, and Alton Whitherspoon.

She is survived by her sister Marie Smith of Pasadena, nieces and nephews;

Ava Anstee and husband Scott of Livingston, Mark Witherspoon and wife Mary Ann of Livingston, Ronnie Witherspoon, James Witherspoon and wife Susan, of Livingston, Marcus Welch and wife Elaine of Pasadena, David Pass and wife Mary of Carthage, Betty Smith and husband James of Carthage, Jo Anna Whiteside and husband Kenneth of Carthage, and Maxine Harris of Winona.

Serving as pallbearers will be Tommy Walker, Scott Anstee, Ronnie Witherspoon, Ed Jones, James Langford, and Marcus Walker.