Gerald Edward White

WHITE, Mr. Gerald Edward, 65, a resident of Luverne, Alabama, passed away on Thursday, October 29, 2015. Funeral services will be held at 11 A.M. on Saturday, October 31, 2015 from the gymnasium of Luverne High School with Ministers Charles Sipper and John Dickinson officiating. Interment will follow in Rock Hill Cemetery with Turner Funeral Home of Luverne directing. Mr. White was preceded in death by his parents, Ducion and Margie Owens White; sister, Faye Swearinger; and two brothers, Bain White and Joe White. He is survived by his wife of 44 years, Barbara Price White; three children, Margie (Walter) Gomillion, Angie (Danny) Taylor, and Tim (Deirdre) White; twelve grandchildren, Mallory and Kara Gomillion, Morgan, Bailey, Abbey, and Austin Taylor, Christopher, Chase, and Case White, Zoe and Zanna Bloodsworth, and Miranda Bottoms; four sisters, Sybil (Willie) Hardy, Louise (Charles) Simmons, Shirley (Guy) Simmons, and Sylvia (Mark) Grant; three brothers, Wayne White, Ray (Lorraine) White, and Raymond (Linda) White; a host of nieces and nephews; and special friends, George & Peggy Tranum and Butch & Phyllis Norman. Active pallbearers will be Gary Simmons, Mark Simmons, Tyler Grant, Jeff White, Greg White, and Andy White. The family requests that any memorial donations be made to the Luverne Athletic Club, P.O. Box 16, Luverne, Alabama 36049. They will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-8pm on Friday, October 30, 2015. Mr. White will lie-in-state at the gymnasium on Saturday from 9:30-11 A.M.