Longtime Alaskan Norma June White, 64, died March 2, 2008, at Providence Extended Care of pancreatic cancer.  A service will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Copper Basin Assembly of God in Glennallen. The Rev. Clarence Catledge will officiate.

Norma was born July 9, 1943, in Eugene, Ore. She graduated from Pleasantville High School in 1961. She became a resident of Alaska in 1969, when she moved here with her husband, George White. They settled in Copper Center. During the 1980s, she worked as a cashier and manager for Jim Allen at the Copper River Cash Store.

.She was a member of Copper Basin Assembly of God for 30 years and had been a Sunday school teacher too.

Her interests included sewing, crocheting and finding a good bargain at garage sales. Most recently, she had taken up snorkeling in the warm waters of Hawaii.

"Norma had the heart of a servant, placing the needs of others before her own," her family recalled. "She had a kind and gentle spirit. Mom's sense of humor and desire to serve Jesus will be dearly missed by all whose lives she touched. To be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord, 2 Corinthians 5:8."

Norma is survived by her husband, George White; daughter, Stacy Henderson of Anchorage; son, Randy White of Bristol, Tenn.; granddaughters, Kailee Henderson of Anchorage and Ashley Strunk of Tampa, Fla.; grandsons, Payton and Alexander White of Bristol; sister, Mary Fanning; brothers, Ron Kirk, Bob Kirk and John Kirk, all of Washington; and many nieces and nephews.

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