Elizabeth A. White

Elizabeth A. (Betsy) White entered into eternal rest on August 10, 2025. She was a former Roman and in retirement resided in Sandy Pond, NY.

Betsy was born April 19, 1943 in Rome, NY, the daughter of Mary Dunn Murphy and Edward A. Murphy. Betsy was a 1961 graduate of St. Aloysius Academy in Rome, NY, and a 1964 graduate of St. Joseph’s Hospital School of Nursing as a registered nurse. In 1970, she graduated Oneonta State with a BS in School Nurse Teaching and graduated in 1973 from the College of St. Rose in Albany, NY with a Masters degree in Special Education. She will always be grateful for the educational assistance that she was awarded by the state of New York.
On July 27, 1974 Betsy married Ronald White, a blessed union of 51 years. Betsy was a lifelong communicant of both St. Peter’s Church in Rome where she was lector and helped lead the Cursillo retreat at Griffiss Air Force Base in 1974 and Christ Our Light in Pulaski, NY where she served as a lector and eucharistic minister.

Betsy’s work experience included working as an RN at Rome City Hospital, a social worker for Oneida County, and for the Rome Develop Mental Center, where her position was a treatment team leader in the VVS area and she was honored to be named the DDSP Outstanding Woman of the Year. Betsy was very proud of her Bridge to Friendship Program that she helped establish with VVS teacher Paul Murray during her time at the DDSO. The program was commended by Dr. Thomas Morgan, VVS principal, and Dr. Patrick Curtain, VVS Superintendent of Schools.

Betsy enjoyed spending time with her family, traveling, reading, and getting together with friends, including her St. Aloysius Academy classmates. Her favorite memories were spending time with her family at camp at Sandy Pond and their winter home in Spring Hill, FL. She also enjoyed her longtime friendship with Kathy Seeley. Betsy was so thankful for her caretaker Daryl Mautz who also became a dear friend.

Surviving beside her loving husband, Ron, are her two daughters, Julie White, Rochester, and Cherie (Matt) Savery, Holland Patent and her three grandsons: Caleb, Isaac, and Eli Savery who were the apple of her eye. Also surviving are her sister, Marie Marsden of Rochester; sister-in-law, Mary Lou Murphy, Florida; sister-in-law, Mary Murphy of Sherrill, sister-in-law, Barbara Murphy of Oneida, sister-in-law, Kerry White of Utica, brother-in-law, George Silverman, New Jersey, brother-in-law, James White of Whitesboro; and many nieces and nephews. She was predeceased by her brothers, Thomas, Raymond, Robert and Edward Murphy; sister, Ann McKiernan; sisters-in-law, Katy Murphy, Anne Murphy and Elizabeth Silverman; and brothers-in-law Frank Marsden and James McKiernan.

Calling hours will be at Barry Funeral Home from 4 to 6 PM on Friday, August 15.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at St. Peter’s Church at 9:00 AM, Saturday, August 16. Interment will take place immediately following the mass at Rome Cemetery.

Please offer online condolences at: www.BarryFuneralHome.com.