Audine White Agent

SERVICES:  SUNDAY, JULY 5, 20152:00 P. M. MCCLAIN-HAYS CHAPELVISITATION:  SATURDAY, JULY 4, 20155:00 - 8:00 P. M. INTERMENT:  CEDARLAWN CEMETERYOFFICIATING: REV. ROY WOLFEREV. CREIGHTON WHITEMrs. Audine 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 November 21, 1923, to Mr. 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,  became principal at Deemer and later Philadelphia Elementary School. After her retirement from Philadelphia she 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,” she said. Mrs. Agent is survived by her son, Bernard L. Agent and his wife, Tammy of Philadelphia; grandchildren, Austin Agent, Ashton Agent Tucker and her husband, Robert Tucker all of Oxford, MS; sister, Sybil Goldman of Senatobia, MS.  She also leaves behind 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.Pallbearers were Tate Salter, Richie Ayers, Brian Ayers, Mitchell White, James White, Kevin White, James Johnson, Nollie C. White and Chester White.