Rose Maire White

Rose Marie Bowman White died Sunday morning, Nov. 28, 2010, she was 75. In death, she continues her support of medical research at Texas Tech University in Lubbock.Memorial services will be at 10 a.m. Friday in paramount Baptist Church Building "B" with Lance Herrington officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St.Born March 9, 1935, to Clarence E. and Nola J. (Fawley) Bowman, she attended grade school in Cache, Okla., where she was crowned "Art Queen" of the sixth grade. Graduating from Lawton High School in 1954, she attended Cameron College (now Cameron University, from 1954 through 1956, and was named "Outstanding Actress" in her final year there.She continued acting and singing in the choir at Central State College (now University of Central State, Edmond, Okla.), graduating in 1958 with a degree in education. Hired in 1958 to teach second grade at Emerson Elementary, she transferred then to Sanborn Elementary in 1969, where she taught Amarillo second graders until her retirement in the spring of 1990.She met her husband, Donald W. White, on an Amarillo city bus in 1962, and they married in 1963, beginning their many years of marriage, during which they enjoyed extensive travel in a succession of motor homes. Her only children were her students, of whom she taught nearly a thousand; she advised them to "think for yourself... you are the only person you really live with for the rest of your life, so be proud of who you are and what you do."She was preceded in death by her mother, then her father, and finally by her older brother, Dale, all of Lawton, Okla.She leaves behind a host of friends; her Society Sisters of Delta Kappa Gamma, an organization of key female educators; her many students; and her beloved husband of 47 years, Don.

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