Frankie Jo Marcontell White transitioned peacefully to her heavenly home on Thursday, May 14, 2026 from her residence in Waxahachie, Texas. Funeral services are scheduled for Friday, May 22, 2026 at 11:00 am, at the Waxahachie Funeral Home with the Reverend Keri Smith officiating assisted by the Reverend Robert Shelton. The family invites friends to arrive an hour prior to the service for Visitation. Interment will follow at Maypearl Cemetery in Maypearl, Texas.

Frankie was born Wednesday, February 19, 1941, in Saratoga, Texas to Jeff Davis Marcontell and Leona Evelyn Winkler. She graduated from Barbers Hill High School, attended Southwestern Assemblies of God College, and Sam Houston StatevUniversity and graduated from the University of Houston with a Bachelor of Science in Education. Frankie married AlfredvJoseph White, III (Sonny) on January 26, 1962.

Frankie taught primary education for thirty-three years in the Barber’s Hill and Waxahachie Independent School Districts. In 1970 she began teaching at Marvin Elementary in Waxahachie, Texas, and later transferred to Shackelford Elementary where she remained until her retirement. Her teaching career spanned generations, allowing her to instruct both parents and their children.

She ministered alongside her husband Alfred as Assemblies of God pastors. Frankie sang duets, played the piano, taught Sunday school, Children’s Church, and Missionettes. Alfred and Frankie became Associate Pastors and members of Maypearl First Assembly of God Church in 1982, and Frankie became an active member of the area Maypearl Women’s Fellowship.

After retirement Frankie devoted her time to childcare and touched the lives of many families, becoming “Mimaw” to all. She enjoyed playing board games with the kiddos, but admittedly always played to win! She spread the Gospel through crafting as she prepared gift bags for “Light the Night” and enclosed uplifting notes in her annual Christmas cards. Hosting Easter and Christmas were two of her standard traditions and at those family gatherings, everyone had to sing their part! Music played a large role in Frankie’s life having grown up attending Marcontell singings and reunions, and participating in many family trios and quartets. She often sang specials at church and directed numerous plays and musicals.

Frankie and Sonny were married for sixty-three years, until his passing in 2025. She missed him very much and looked forward to their reunion.

Frankie was preceded in death by her husband and her parents. She is survived by her three sons, David Alan White and wife Sissy, Damon Charles White and wife Michelle, Darryl Edwin White and wife Crissy; eight grandchildren, Danielle Schrag, Courtney Schwab and husband Jeffrey, Jonathan White and wife Meaghan, Jordan White and fiancé Colleen, Joshua White, Brittni Dunbar and husband McEntry, Nathan White and wife Kaylie, and Ethan White; and ten great- grandchildren, Raleigh, Rebel, Memphis, Jon Kyle, Ben, Jackson, Harper, Brielle, Mac, and Elliott. She is also survived by her brother J.D. Marcontell and wife Sissy, and her sister Flo Wilburn and husband L.C., as well as numerous nieces and nephews who were very dear to her heart.

Serving as pallbearers are grandsons Jonathan White, Jordan White, Joshua White, Nathan White, Ethan White, Jeffrey Schwab, and McEntry Dunbar. Honorary pallbearers are Daniel Willliams, Zachary Mason, Andrew Mason, Darrell Brown, Doug Brown, Preston Claiborne, and James Claiborne.

“For I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me at that day; and not to me only, but unto all them also that love His appearing.” 2 Timothy 4:6-8