Collecting names for my graveyard scrapbook and for me this has been the saddest entry.
Francis Julian White
LIBERTYVILLE, Ill. — Services for Francis Julian White, Ph.D., will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at Dunbar Funeral Home, Devine Street Chapel, with burial in Bush River Memorial Gardens. Visitation will be 6-7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.
Dr. White died Tuesday, November 7, 2006, in Northwestern University Hospital in Chicago, Ill. The son of Delores H. White and the late Coleman L. White Sr., Frank was born August 13, 1952, in Columbia Hospital. A graduate of Eau Claire High School, Frank went on to graduate with a Bachelor of Science, a Master’s in Experimental Psychology and a doctorate in Psychopharmacology, all from the University of South Carolina. He would remain a devoted Gamecock fan for the remainder of his life.
After postdoctoral training at the St. Louis University School of Medicine, Frank went on to teach at the University of Illinois, receiving tenure in 1987. He also taught at Wayne State University and was Director of the Neuropsychopharmacology Laboratory at the Lafayette Clinic in Detroit, Mich. In 1992, Frank joined the Department of Neuroscience in the Chicago Medical School and in 1998 was chosen to lead the Department of Cellular Molecular Pharmacology.
Among many other honors, Frank received the prestigious MERIT award from the National Institute of Drug Abuse. He served as Senior Editor of the Journal of Neuroscience, and was the 1995-1996 President of the Chicago Chapter of Neuroscience. In recognition of his career and his many contributions to the field of science, U.S.C. selected Frank as an Alumni of Distinction.
While Frank’s career provided him with much to be proud, his daughters, Lucy and Jessie, were the source of his greatest joy and satisfaction. Frank will be remembered by his family, friends, students and colleagues for his sense of humor and love of life - especially golf, gourmet cooking and rock and roll. It is a test of courage to live on without Frank, but he would agree with Goethe that “death is nature’s expert advice to get plenty of life.”
Surviving are his daughters, Lucille White and Jessica White, his mother, Delores H. White, and maternal grandmother, Gladys C. Hames. Also surviving are brothers, Coleman L. White Jr. and Michael S. White, a sister, Cheryl W. Phillips, and his former wife and colleague, Marina Wolf.
