Jimmy Jefferson White

Jimmy Jefferson White, 83, of Paris, passed away Monday, June 22, 2020, at Paris Regional Medical Center. The family will schedule a memorial service at a later date. Cremation was under the care and direction of Bright-Holland Funeral Home.

Jimmy was born April 13, 1937, in Union, MS. He honorably served his country in the United States Army for two years. He was a pilot, a barber, and retired as an adjuster for MetLife. Jimmy & his wife, Nora, enjoyed music, and he was lead guitarist for a group in Paris and enjoyed playing music with Kenneth Marshall and friends on Tuesday afternoons. They also enjoyed camping and the outdoors. He was a member of the Masonic Lodge.

Preceding him in death were his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Lewis White, a sister, Nellie Ray Neese, and two brothers, Wilbur White and Buddy White.

Survivors include his wife, Nora McDowra White whom he married on May 14, 2002, five step-children, Jeff McDowra & wife Teena, Marla Davis & husband Wes, Bobbie Murray & husband Sam, Donna Varnell & husband Gary, and Debbie Williamson & husband Russell, a sister, Patsy Gardner & husband Willard, a sister-in-law, Eunice White, numerous nieces & nephews including six nephews whom he thought of as his own children, Doyal White, Randy White, Ernie White, Rodney White, Donny Neese, and Mitchell Neese, thirteen grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren along with a host of friends.