Roy Joe White
Roy Joe White passed away on Feb. 13, 2022, in Show Low hospital after a very lengthy illness. He was born in Casa Grande, on Jan. 25, 1952, to Francis Elizabeth and Raymond White.
A Celebration of Life will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, March 12, at the First Baptist Church in Holbrook.
His family moved to Holbrook in 1961 when his father was part of the original crew that fired up unit one at Cholla Power Plant. Roy attended school and graduated from Holbrook High School in May of 1970. He was drafted into the United State Army in April of 1972 and served proudly until April of 1974.
Upon coming home from the service, he went to work for Southern Union Gas Company and in 1975 met the love of his life. Roy and Teri were married Aug. 18, 1979, at the First Baptist Church in Holbrook and in 1981 Roy started his career as an appraiser for the Navajo County Assessor’s Office. In November of 1982 they were blessed with their first son Casey, followed by a son, Kelly in 1987 and a daughter Cristie in 1989.
Roy worked for Navajo County over 30 years when he retired in July of 2009. He served as a school board member of Northern Arizona Vocational Institute of Technology from 2001 to 2010 and served as their board president in 2006-2007. His passions in life were his wife and children, and then his four beautiful grandchildren. He loved being a dad and granddad more than anything in the world. He also loved drag racing, hunting and building remote control airplanes. He always had projects going!
He is survived by his wife, Teri; sons, Casey White (Kristin), Kelly White, and daughter Cristie Petersen (Aaron); four grandchildren, Wiley, Kylan, Grayson and Ally; sisters, MaryAnn Somdahl (Carl) and Francis; and several nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents, and his brother Ray White.
