Alva Thomas White Sr. was born on October 29, 1924.and passed from this life on December 29, 2012 .. Tom was the youngest of five children born in Laurel Mississippi to tbe late Burrell and Sallie Mae White. He was also preceded in death by his wife Ella Sue White, sister Elise Cleveland, and brothers

Lindsey and Marion. Tom enlisted in the U. S. Navy on July 4,1940 at the age of 16. During his distinguished career he served in both the Pacific and Asiati campaigns ofWWlI as a Deep Sea Diver and Hospital Corpsman. During the Korean War he was detached to tbe Marine I" Division to serve in the Chosin Reservoir campaign as a Hospital Corpsman and surgical assistant. Following his Naval career, Tom was a pharmaceutical salesman for both Strassenburgb Laboratories, and Johnson and Johnson He was affectionately given the nickname 'MUDCA T' by tbe Tulsa Area Medical Association for his lifelong allegiance to his Mississippi roots, and referred to as 'DOC' White by his many friends and fellow members of Tulsa chapter of 'THE CHOSIN FEW". Tom is survived by bis sister Mildred of Helen Georgia, daughters Deborah and Alexandra, Son tom and

wife Cheryl, six grandchildren - Joshua and wife Kristi, Susan, Matthew and wife Marci, Stephen, Jeremy, and Megan , and five great-grandchildren Addyson, Liam, Aiden, Avery, and Harper. Services will be 10:00 A.M., Thursday, January 3, 2013 at Moore's Southlawn Chapel. Interment will be 2:00 P.M., Ft. Gibson National Cemetery