Carol Savage White died May 3, 2023, at the age of 89 at home on East Olive Drive in Huntsville, Alabama, where she lived since 1969. She was born October 29, 1933, in Birmingham, Alabama to Mona Cagle Savage and Thomas Earl Savage.
Visitation will be held from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., followed by a memorial service at 2:00 on Sunday, May 7, at Laughlin Service Funeral Home on Bob Wallace Avenue in Huntsville. Burial will be at Maple Hill Cemetery.
Carol lived in Birmingham until age five before moving with her family to Knoxville, Tennessee for five years then to Chattanooga, Tennessee where she graduated from Chattanooga City High School in 1951. She attended Carson Newman College for two years before returning to Chattanooga to work following the death of her father. She was working for TVA when she met Paul White, and friends arranged their first date on Valentine’s Day in 1956. They married in 1957 and moved to Huntsville along with thousands of others at that time. The day they moved to town was the grand opening day of Parkway City Shopping Center and (for the Huntsvillians reading this) they couldn’t understand why they had built such a thing “out in the middle of nowhere.” She often said what a blessing it was to have lived and raised a family in Huntsville. She wasn’t a native, but she was deeply loyal.
When she became a mother in 1958, she poured herself into being the best one possible. She was so proud to be a wife and mother and deeply loved and served her family. She helped with Cub Scouts, was a gray lady at Huntsville Hospital, Red Cross volunteer, read Winnie the Pooh over and over to her kids during lunch time, planned picnics, sewed, reupholstered furniture, played bridge, watched “As the World Turns” and baseball while she ironed, took care of her mother and aunts, stretched a dollar as far as she could, worked in human resources at PPG Industries, became a substitute teacher, library aid and computer lab manager at Huntsville High. She especially loved her time at HHS and the friends she made there. She also loved Auburn and watching sports. She especially spent her love on her grandchildren. She was incredibly devoted and went above and beyond to serve and nurture them.
Carol was a long-time member of Twickenham Church of Christ and a regular visitor at Randolph Street Church of Christ in her later years. Her church was very important to her, and she dearly loved traditional hymns and congregational singing. She had many wonderful loyal friends over many years.
Survivors include her husband of 66 years, Paul R. White; son, Jeffrey P. White (Benja); daughter, Jenifer White Campbell; sister, Faye Davis (Wiley); grandchildren, Ian Campbell (Carrie), Caitlin Campbell Thomas (Trent), Jenny Campbell Prater (Jay), Paul Campbell, Callie Campbell, Conner White, Caroline White, Anna Katherine White; especially close nieces, Teresa Bennett Elrod (Robert) and Lisa Jamison Craven (Darrell); eight great-grandsons, George, Charlie, Sheppard, Bill, Sam, John, Roman, and Jack; and many other nieces and nephews, all of whom she loved.
The pallbearers are Greg Bowen, Jeff Brown, Ian Campbell, Darrell Craven, Hayes Payne, Jay Prater, Trent Thomas, and Conner White.
She had a special soft spot for St. Jude’s Hospital and the Shriner’s Hospitals, if you are inclined to make a donation to a charity that was important to her.
