Harvey White

Published 11:25 am Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Funeral services were held Friday, Dec. 27, 2024, at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Prentiss for Mr. Harvey White, 92, who died Tuesday, Dec. 17, 2024, at Woodlands Rehabilitation Center in Clinton. 

Rev. Ozell White officiated with interment following in the church cemetery. 

Johnson Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Harvey White was born to the late Nollie and John Allen White in Prentiss. 

He attended Whitesand School. 

He married the late Mary Lee Mikell and to this union five children were born.

He held several jobs including the pipeline in Texas and a nuclear power plant in Louisiana and later he started his own business, White Construction.   

He is survived by his children, Jimmy Dale White and Joann White both of Jackson; Beverly (William) Jones of Prentiss; Patricia White of Oak Park, Michigan; Gail (Horace)

Byers of Houston, Texas; Raychann Bass of Prentiss, Maxine Harkless-White of Jackson; brother, Howard  (Edna) White of Prentiss; special friend, Minister Margaret Williams of Carson; seven grandchildren and many other relatives and friends.