Jonesboro- Martha Elizabeth Barton White, 95, passed away Friday, December 13, 2019.

Born June 23, 1924 to Frank and Demetra Parrish Barton. Martha attended Jonesboro Schools and graduated from Arkansas State Training School in 1942.

Anyone who knew Martha knew that she was an avid ASU Basketball fan, having season tickets to both men's and women's games, and loved the March tournaments! She particularly loved "her girls" and Coach Boyer! She also loved playing bridge and was a member of several bridge clubs for many years.

She struck out for Washington D.C. with several other girlfriends and worked at the Pentagon, making her contribution to the war effort during WWII. She came back to Jonesboro and married Wayne A. White in 1946. While her husband was in the Marine Corp they lived in Miami, Florida, and Cherry Point, NC. She and her husband owned the Jonesboro Business College, where she taught alongside her husband and her mother, and closed the school after her husband's death in 1975. She worked for Jones \u0026 Company Accountants for a year and from there went to work for the Bank of Northeast Arkansas. She graduated from the Banking School of Marketing and retired in 1982. She was a member of the Altrusa Club, secretary of the Sales and Marketing Club, President of the Women's Bowling Assn., and Secretary of the Fast Break Club at ASU.

She was a lifetime member of First Baptist Church Jonesboro and was a part of the Parrish and Barton families that were early founders and leaders in the church. She was happy to know that the sixth generation was now attending First Baptist. She was secretary of the TEL Sunday School Class and was involved in numerous activities at the church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Major Wayne A. White; her parents; and one son, Mark A. White; a brother, Pete Barton and a sister, Frances Bailey.

Survivors include sons, Wayne F. White and wife, Mary of Conway and David H. White and wife Billye of Fayetteville; daughter Dede Long and husband David of Jonesboro; grandchildren, Kimberly Jenkins and husband Tim of Maumelle, Amanda DeJournette and husband Jamie, of Maynard, Erin Odom, Blake Rogers and wife Bridgett, all of Jonesboro, and Rick White of Missoula, Montana; great-grandchildren, Madison Jenkins, Alli and Justin DeJournette, Mac, Addie Blake and Harry Odom, and Henley and Presley Rogers; sister, Emma Gene Buzick of Bella Vista, and many nieces and nephews who loved their "Aunt Marty".

Memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Sunday December 15, 2019 at Gregg-Langford Bookout Funeral Home Chapel, with visitation from 1:00 until 2:00.

The family asks that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to First Baptist Church Building Fund or The Care Center at First Baptist Church Jonesboro.