Funeral services for Mrs. Bernice Dell Lawless White, age 76, of Dallas, Texas, will be held at 11 a.m. on Friday, July 23, 2010 at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church with Rev. David Urban officiating under the direction of Jimerson-Lipsey Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Panola Mt. Zion Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 10 a.m. until service time on Friday at the church. Mrs. White passed away on Tuesday morning, July 20, 2010, in Rockwall.

Bernice Dell Lawless White was born on Sept. 9, 1933, in Nederland, TX to Harvey Oliver Lawless and Maybell Jones Lawless. She graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School in Dallas with the class of 1950. She was of the Baptist faith. We will miss her with all our hearts.

Mrs. White is survived by three sons, Clifton White and wife Claudia, Gary White, and Marlon White and wife Amanda; two sisters, Ouida St. Clair and husband Lee and Claudia Starrett; five grandchildren, Treci Loya and husband Shannon, Jennifer Carpenter and husband Kenneth, Cody White and wife Kate, and Mason and Clayton White; six great-grandchildren, Cameron and Carson Loya, Dustin and Cody Carpenter, and Hailey and Hunter White; three nephews, Bret St. Clair and wife Donna, Bryan St. Clair and wife Jennifer, and Michael St. Clair and wife Michelle; and one niece, Ivey Morgan and husband Jimmy.

Serving as pallbearers are Bret St. Clair, Bryan St. Clair, Michael St. Clair, Steve Lawless, Cody White, Benjamin Hill, and Dustin Carpenter.

Serving as honorary pallbearers are Mason and Clayton White.

If desired, memorials may be made to Mt. Zion U.M.C., P.O. Box 274, Panola, TX 75685 or Panola Mt. Zion Cemetery Assn., P.O. Box 243, Panola, TX 75685.

A guestbook may be signed online at www.jimerson-lipsey.com.