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Nelda White, 77, of Bridge City, passed away Oct. 22, at Baptist Hospital in Orange.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 pm, Sunday, Oct. 25, at Claybar Funeral Home in Bridge City. Officiating will be the Rev. Jeremy Fletcher, of Eastgate United Pentecostal Church in Vidor.

Visitation will be prior to the service beginning at 12:00 pm.

Born in Groves, Jan. 3, 1938, she was the daughter of Jack Dempsey Matthews and Ella (Webb) Matthews. Nelda was a loving mother and wife who dearly loved her grandchildren. She was a homemaker, a realtor and an excellent cook who made incredible cookies. She will be greatly missed.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, Glen Matthews and sister, Delores Pickett.

Nelda is survived by her loving husband of 60 years, Paul J. White; children, Rodney White and wife Libby, of Beaumont, James White and wife Trudy, of Bridge City and Bryan White and wife Elois, of Cedar Park; seven grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; siblings, David Matthews and wife Dorothy, Mr. and Mrs. Dilbert Matthews, Dorothy “Tinsey” Robertson and Gloria Denmon.