Audine White Agent

Published 4:00 am Sunday, July 5, 2015

    PHILADELPHIA – Services for Audine White Agent will be held today at 2 p.m. from McClain-Hays Funeral Home Chapel, with the Revs. Roy Wolfe and Creighton White officiating. Burial will follow in Cedarlawn Cemetery.

    Mrs. Agent, 91, passed away Thursday, July 2, 2015, at her home in Philadelphia, surrounded by her loved ones. She was born in the Zephyr Hill Community on Nov. 21, 1923, to Vadie C. and Sarah Josephine (Watkins) White. She attended Southside United Methodist Church.

     Mrs. Agent was a lifelong educator, spending 65 years in the schools of this area. She earned her degree at Mississippi State University, including her master’s in 1955 and a specialist in education in 1969. She began her career at Forestdale, later becoming principal at Deemer and later Philadelphia Elementary School.

    After her retirement from Philadelphia, Mrs. Agent went to work for the Bureau of Indian Affairs and later the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, retiring there in 2008. Mrs. Agent received the Citizen of the Year Award in 2008 for her contributions to education in Philadelphia and Neshoba County. 

    “All I ever wanted to be was a teacher,” Mrs. Agent said.

     She is survived by her son, Bernard L. Agent and his wife, Tammy, of Philadelphia; grandchildren, Austin Agent, Ashton Agent Tucker and her husband, Robert, all of Oxford; her sister, Sybil Goldman of Senatobia; and several nieces, nephews and their families.

     Mrs. Agent was preceded in death by her husband, Bernard L. Agent; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vadie White; brothers, Wadell White, Spurgeon White and Carley White; sisters, Onyx Bobo, Opal Peoples and Odessa Blackwell; and granddaughter, Meagan Leigh Agent.