- Date Of Birth: October 15, 1923
- Date Of Death: October 23, 2015
- State: Louisiana
FRANCES ALLEN WHITE died at the age of 92, in New Orleans, Louisiana on October 26, 2015. She was born in Jackson, Tennessee on October 15, 1923. She spent the first six years of her life at Moss Side Plantation in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She grew up and married in Nashville, Tennessee where she lived until moving to New Orleans in 1970. Frances had a long and varied career: Advertising Copywriter for Abingdon Press, Editorial Assistant at Vanderbilt Medical School and editor of three Southern Farm Publishing magazines. After moving to New Orleans, she worked at times for Loyola, Dominican, LSU Medical School, both Tulane Law and Medical Schools and was for three years Executive Director of the New Orleans Graduate Medical Assembly. In between regular jobs she worked as a temporary for companies all over the city, including Exxon, Mobil and Shell during the oil boom in Louisiana. For the last eight years before she retired she worked first as Business Manager of the Loyola Law Review and the as Assistant to the Dean of Loyola Law School. Publications include articles in small magazines, newspapers and five short stories in literary journals. At the time of her death, she was soliciting help in publishing a book co-authored with one of her daughters, Holly, about their forty years of travels in Mexico, while also writing a memoir of her working life called “ Resume, or How I made it to Social Security.” Frances was also the Founder and Charter Member of LLWW, The Last Letter Writers of the World, an organization devoted entirely to the preservation of the art of letter writing. She was famous among her friends and family for letters.
