Lois White died Sunday 23 December 2012 at age 85 after suffering a stroke at her home. She died at Hospice of Dayton. She was preceded in death by her husband Ted and her son Samuel.

Lois was born in rural Overton County Tennessee on 1 April 1927. She was the sixth and last child of Ova Clementine Key and Thomas Shirley Speck. After the death of her mother Ovie when Lois was four, her father Shirley married Dallas Bowman and had six more children.

In 1944, when Lois was seventeen, she left home with her sister Emma and moved to Dayton. Lois worked several jobs after the war, including factory work and as a dance instructor for Arthur Murray. In that era being a great dancer was a way to get dates with eligible men. Lois was successful, meeting her future husband Tedford Robert White, who was an Army veteran and University of Dayton college student.

Lois and Ted were married 4 November 1950, during halftime of the UD football game taking place that day. As was the convention of the time, Lois stopped working when she began her marriage. She commenced two projects after her wedding day. First, she began educating herself. She read voraciously, including the textbooks of all of Ted's college courses. She continued her self-education her entire life and had a wide range of interests and wide knowledge. She also began her family. Her son Tedford Karl White was born in 1951 (married Cris Tina Shoup), her son Samuel David White was born in 1953 (died in 1957 of Muscular Dystrophy), and her son Timothy Robert White was born in 1955 (married Sandra Tobin).

In 1952, Lois moved with her family to Tipp City, where she and Ted lived for more than twenty years. There were very social and had many friends in Tipp.

When her children were school age, Lois took up golf. Over the decade of the 1960's, she steadily improved her game. By the early 1970's she had worked her way through all of the lower competitive flights to the Championship Flight in the citywide competition between the Miami Shores Golf Club and the Troy Country Club. In 1970 she won that tournament to become the top woman golfer in the Troy-Tipp area.

When her husband Ted retired from manufacturing to open a Watch and Clock shop in Dayton, Lois began studying clock making through the American Watchmaker's Institute in Cincinnati. In 1978 she passed the test to become a Certified Clockmaker. Lois lived the last 35 years of her life in Dayton.

Although Lois endured numerous health challenges the last years of her life, she was fortunate to maintain her full personality and intellect. She lived independently in her home until her death.

Lois is survived by her sons, Tedford and Timothy, grandchildren, Emily, Tedford, Samuel and Meagan as well as one great-grandchild, Alexander.

A gathering of family and friends will take place at a future date. Arrangements have been entrusted to FRINGS AND BAYLIFF FUNERAL HOME, 32 W. Main St., Tipp City, Ohio 45371.