Lettie Jo Eighmey White’s Passing

It is with great sadness that we report the passing of our classmate, Lettie Jo Eighmey White.

Lettie Jo Eighmey White slipped quietly away from this life on Oct. 11, 2019, after a long and heroic battle with complications from diabetes which she had since age eight. She was 74 years old, having been born in New Orleans on Jan. 11, 1945. Educated in New Orleans Public Schools, she graduated from Alcee Fortier High School in 1963 and attended LSUNO.

In 1969 she married her husband, Albert Sidney White III. Together they were faithful partners for fifty years.

Lettie did secretarial and retail work for a number of years and later became an entrepreneur, operating a weight-loss business, The Diet Center, for several years thereafter.

Her greatest loss was the untimely death in 2014 of her only child and son, Walter Harvey White, a prince of a man. This occurred not long after Lettie and Sid had moved from New Orleans to Florida to be near Walter and his beautiful young family.

She is survived by her dedicated and caring husband, Sidney who never wavered in looking out for her ongoing health challenges, sister, Marie Eighmey Black of Morrow, Ohio, daughter-in-law Michelle DaCosta White of Ft. Lauderdale, and two grandchildren, Ruby Sophia White and Patrick Sidney White.

Lettie was an engaged and astute political observer, very upfront in her beliefs, and had no apologies as such. She was an incredibly strong and forthright person of conviction and deep faith who was confident in her last hours of suffering without complaint, that she would soon be with her mother and Walter as well as the baby she lost early in her marriage.

Published in The Times-Picayune on Nov. 1, 2019