Mrs. Doris White Mack, 67, died peacefully while having surgery at Wake Forest University/Baptist Medical Center on Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Doris had been living with Multiple Myeloma Cancer for three years. She suffered very little during this three-year period and lived with the limitations imposed on her by the disease with good humor and love for and from her family and friends.
She was born in Winston-Salem, NC and graduated from St. Anne's Academy and Winston-Salem State University. Under the guidance of Dr. Barbara K. Phillips, Doris and four other Winston-Salem Girl Scouts became the first African-American girls to obtain what was girl scouts highest honor- the Curved Bar. She taught reading in the WSFCS system for a number of years and she loved volunteering at the Samaritan Ministries Soup Kitchen where she often took 1 or 2 of her grandchildren along. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. for 47 years and of the Presbyterian faith. Doris loved gardening (a trait she inherited from her mother, Frances). She obtained the Master Gardner certificate just prior to her discovering her illness.
She was preceded in death by a brother, Sterling.
Doris is survived by her husband, Jim Mack; her children, Kimberly Joyce Mack, Courtney Crews Mack, and Wesley Robinson Mack; six grandchildren, Whitney, Zola, Ryder, Ali, Nkosi, and Grey; one brother, Mason; and a host of other family members and friends.
Doris will be sorely missed by her family and friends.
Funeral services will be conducted at 12Noon Monday, November 23, 2009 at the Russell Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Carlton A.G. Eversley officiating. Interment will follow in Evergreen Cemetery. The family visitation will be held from 11am until 12noon on Monday at the funeral home during which time the AKA Sorority will conduct The Ivy Beyond the Wall Ceremony.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the Samaritan Ministries Soup Kitchen 1243 Patterson Ave. Winston-Salem, NC 27101.