Betty Jean Bennie White, age 92, of McCaysville, passed away Friday, January 10, 2020, at PruittHealth Skilled Nursing and Rehab in Blue Ridge. She was born March 5, 1927, in Ducktown, to the late William C. Bennie and Jewel Morgan Bennie. Mrs. White retired after 25 years with the Fannin County Board of Education as a custodian. She was a member of the McCaysville Church of God and the women’s group. Mrs. White was preceded in death by her parents, William C Bennie and Jewel Morgan Bennie; husband, Joe Ben White; daughter, Joann White; granddaughter, Heather Towery; and brothers, William, Clyde, Claude, Tom, Ralph and Hoyt Bennie.
Survivors include daughter, Betty Jewell Towery (Joe) of Anderson, South Carolina; sons, Joseph White (Shelia) of Houston, Texas, and Henry Jackson White (Donna) of Houston, Texas; sister, Doris Robinson of Hass Lake, Michigan; four grandchildren, Jason White, Keven White, Michael Towery and Jennifer White; and seven great-grandchildren also survive.
Services were conducted Monday, January 13, 2020, from the Copper Ridge Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Chris Taylor officiating. Pallbearers were Rodney Patterson, Luther Mann Patterson, Matthew Bennie and Nathan Strickland. Condolences may be sent to the family at www.akinsfuneralhome.com. Akins Funeral Home of Copperhill was in charge of the arrangements.