Viola Peschel White

at the age of 94 in a Temple hospital.

Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m., Wednesday, June 15, 2011 at the Goodnight Funeral

Home in Bartlett with the Rev. Jimmy Towers, pastor of LifeWay Fellowship of Killeen

officiating.

Burial will follow at the Bartlett City Cemetery.

Viola White was born February 10, 1917 in rural Williamson County near Georgetown. She

was one of seven children born to Louis C. Peschel and Hattie Beyer Peschel. Viola was

baptized at Saint Peter American Lutheran Church in Walburg, educated at the Schwertner

and Dension schools and later lived in Granger as a young adult.

Viola married Worth B. White, Sr. on December 8, 1942 and enjoyed 43 years of marriage.

Their marriage was blessed with a daughter, Nancy Dawn. During these 43 years they

farmed two farms, one at Bartlett and the other at Schwertner. Viola was an active school

volunteer and always served as room mother making those delicious treats. Her beautiful

smile was seen throughout the years being helpful to customers and friends in the Bartlett

area where she was also known as being an outstanding seamstress. Her favorite work

experience was the years spent at the Teinert Memorial Library with her deep love for

books. As assistant librarian, she had a huge heart helping all ages, but especially the

children and hosting summer reading programs. She retired in 2005 due to health reasons

and moved to The Rosewood Care Center in Killeen in December 2008. She was a 50 plus

year member of the First United Methodist Church in Bartlett and attended LifeWay

Fellowship with her family as her health permitted.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Worth B. White, Sr. in November 1986, stepson

Worth B. White, Jr. killed in war, three brothers Stanley, Calvin and Logan Peschel and two

sisters Wilma Klett Sagebiel and Irene Johle.

She is survived by her daughter Nancy Yeonopolus and husband Jim; grandson Jack Neal

Mather; granddaughter Angela Dawn Reese and husband Barry; step-granddaughter Kelley

Yeonopolus-Holman; great-grandson Braden Reese; brother Col. (Ret) Franklin D. Peschel

and wife Marjorie; sisters-in-law Margie B. Peschel, MD and Amanda Lea Peschel and

numerous nephews and nieces.

The family suggests any memorials be made in Viola's memory to The Teinert Memorial

Library in Bartlett or to the First United Methodist Church of Bartlett.

Family visitation will be at 12:00 noon on Wednesday, June 15, 2011, at the Goodnight

Funeral Home in Bartlett, preceding funeral services.

Funeral services provided by Goodnight Funeral Home.