Herman L. White, Sr. Died Saturday After Lengthy Illness Herman L. White, Sr., 61-year-old former Celeste major, justice of the peace, and long-time employee of the MKT Railroad, died at 12:50 AM Saturday, January 8, 1966, in a Denison hospital after an illness lasting seven years. Funeral services were at 2:00 PM Sunday in Coker-Mathews-Peters Funeral Home Chapel in Greenville, with the Rev. Charles Russell, pastor of Washington Street Baptist Church, Greenville, officiating. Burial was in Memoryland Memorial Park, with pallbearers including J. W. Williams, Sam Ross, Ernest Hayes, Guy Shields, W. T. Howard, and Raymond Irons. Mr. White was born March 14, 1905 in Durant, Oklahoma, the son of Berry White and Era Blackwell White. He came to Texas as a child and was reared in the Celeste and Greenville areas. He married Miss Ruby Jones on December 24, 1933 in Celeste. Mr. White served as a ticket agent for the MKT Railroad for thirty years, working in the Lone Oak, Celeste, and Greenville offices as well as other Texas offices. Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Ruby White of 4015 Washington Street, Greenville; one son, Herman L. White, Jr., of Dallas; four sisters, Mrs. W. A. Berry of Greenville, Mrs. Harl Hudson of Leonard, Mrs. Walter Doyle and Mrs. Sam Sams, both of Cleburne; two half-brothers, Byird Glasscoe of Celeste and Guy Glasscoe of Dallas; a number of nieces and nephews. Deacons of Washington Street Baptist Church were honorary pallbearers. (January 14, 1966, The Celeste Courier) (Friends knew him as "Chief" White.)