Doris Wells White

Doris Wells White, 75, retired Associate Professor of Nursing at Columbia State Community State and former resident of Golf Club Lane, died Monday, April 24, 2006 at Beacon Pointe in Franklin. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday at First United Methodist Church with Dr. James G. Hughes, Rev. Jeff Jacob and Rev. Thomas Ward officiating. Burial will be in Polk Memorial Gardens. The family will visit with friends Thursday from 4 - 8p.m. at Oakes & Nichols Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to First United Methodist Church, 222 West 7th St., Columbia, TN, 38401 or Doris White Nursing Scholarship, CSCC, 1665 Hampshire Pike, Columbia, TN 38401. Notes of sympathy may be sent to the family at www.oakesandnichols.com. The Newark, New York native was the daughter of the late Leland John Wells and Sarah Madelyn Cramer Wells. She received her B.S. degree at Keuka College in Keuka Park, New York and her M.S. in Nursing at Vanderbilt University. She began her career at Columbia State Community College in 1967 where she was one of the first nursing instructors in the new nursing program. She served as past president and secretary of CSCC Faculty Association, past president of CSCC Women's Club, faculty advisor to the Tennessee Association of Student Nurses, past president and vice president of the American Association of University Women, member of the Annie White Circle of the Kings' Daughters and Sons' since 1967, served as a board member and past president and secretary of the organization, and was a board member of the Habitat for Humanity of Maury County. Ms. White was a member of the First United Methodist Church since 1963 where she was a member of the Bruce Strother Sunday School Class and the Dorothy Jackson Circle. Survivors include two daughters, Debbie (Brad) Temple of Thompson's Station, Linda (Richard) Hicks of Columbia; one son, Terry R. White of Spring Hill; one sister, Nancy (Stuart) Balch of Sodus Point, New York; one brother, Richard (Dorothy) Wells of Lake Forest, California; one grandson, Drew Jones of Memphis and three granddaughters, Leslie Temple and Samantha Temple both of Thompson's Station, and Rachel Hicks of Columbia. Pallbearers will be Drew Jones, William E. Smith, Jerry L. Battles, Ronald Rogers, Waymon Hickman, Jack Sims and David McClain. Honorary pallbearers will be Ned Laughmiller, members of Bruce Strother Sunday School Class, the staff at Beacon Pointe, and past and present Staff at Columbia State Community College.