Duboise White, Sr., 80, of Fitzgerald died Tuesday, August 30, 2011, at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Saturday, September 3 at the Paulk Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ken Ross and Rev. Danny Hughes officiating. Duboise White, Jr., and Mary Ellen Swank will give the eulogies. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 Friday evening at the funeral home.
Mr. White was born April 28, 1931 in Worth County to the late E.L. and Claudia Mae Lavender White. He graduated in 1945 from Worth County High School. Mr. White was a SSgt in the Medical Corp U.S. Army, stationed in Darmstaad Germany. He moved to Fitzgerald in 1957 and started White Pest Control Co. Mr. White was a fifty-year Mason of Pine Level Lodge, # 353, a member of American Legion Post #99 and a member of the First Baptist Church.
He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law: Amberly and DuBoise White, Jr., of Atlanta; daughter and son-in-law: Mary Ellen & Michael Swank of Atlanta; 3 grandsons: DuBoise Sumner White and Jamison Henry White and Michael McCrae Swank; brothers: Dovard and Nell White of Sylvester, Hollis and Garland White of Americus and Buryl and Sandra White of Sylvester. He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary Nell Key White, daughter, Jennie Lou White, a brother, Forest White and a sister Audrey White.