We got the news today that Shirley Mae (Starcher) White passed away today, during a nap from which she did not wake. Shirley was my mother-in-law for the past 25 years. She was not always an easy person for me to get along with, but I respected her as my elder and the mother of my husband.
Shirley Mae was born 29 January 1944 to the late Victor Vance and Minnie Gola (Ingram) Starcher of Kansas City, Kansas. She married John T. White in 1968, divorcing several years later. The union gave her two children: John T. White, Jr and Mary “Polly” White.
She moved to Blossom (near Paris), Texas, in the late 1970s, then to Longview in the 1980s, where her children finished school. She moved back to Blossom in the mid-2000s, then to Houston in 2008. She moved to Paris in 2014.
She died 01 June 2015 in Paris, Texas, at the age of 71.
Shirley was predeceased by her parents, Victor Vance and Minnie Gola (Ingram) Starcher; and her sister, Elsie (Starcher) Darrah.
Shirley is survived by son, John (Sara) White, Houston; daughter, Mary “Polly” White, Texarkana; two grandchildren, Connor and Sionna White, Houston; sister, Edith (Starcher) Fajdetich, Shawnee Mission, Kansas; brother, Henry Starcher, Warsaw, Missouri; and numerous friends.
Beautifully written. Praying for peace and comfort for family and friends.