Catalina "Cataline" Filostrat White Obituary - Visitation & Funeral Information

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, at St Frances Cabrini Catholic Church with Rev. Chad Partain officiating, and Rev. John Brocato, concelebrating. A recitation of the Holy Rosary will begin at 9:30 a.m. at the church, led by Rev. Robert Johnson. Interment will follow in Greenwood Memorial Park, under the direction of John Kramer & Son Funeral Home. Visitation will be held at the funeral home on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. and resume on Wednesday, July 6, 2022, from 9:00 a.m. until 9:30 a.m. at St Frances Cabrini Catholic Church. Catalina Filostrat White, age 93, passed away on Wednesday, June 29, 2022, at Lexington House in Alexandria, Louisiana. Catalina Emmita Filostrat White was born on July 5, 1928, in New Orleans, Louisiana. She lived there during her youth before moving to Alexandria. She attended Providence Academy in Alexandria from 1940-1944 and in September of 1944 entered Loyola University in New Orleans where she graduated in 1946 with an undergraduate degree in Biology/Medical Technology. On October 1, 1949, she married Paul David White, Jr. at Our Lady of Prompt Succor Church in Alexandria, Louisiana. They enjoyed 53 beautiful years together as they embraced the gift of their five children. Together they enjoyed the simple pleasures in life - camping, fishing, boating and trips to the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The family was large with 19 grandchildren, and we enjoyed annual Christmas Eve celebrations with our extended family, the McNultys and Filostrats. Life was faith filled, humble and good. Their marriage was a testament to the love and devotion they had for each other. After returning to Alexandria, Cataline worked as a clinical medical technologist for the VA Hospital, Huey P Long, Physicians and Surgeons Clinic, Cabrini Hospital/Dr John Maxwell, Dr Malcolm Denley and Central Louisiana State Hospital where she served as Laboratory Director before her retirement. She held certifications from the CDC in Laboratory Diagnosis of Parasitic Diseases and Diagnosis in Parasitology from LSU Medical School in New Orleans. She was a member of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. After years of raising her family and working alongside her husband to support her children through their Catholic School education, she enjoyed an early retirement traveling, fishing and spending time with family. Cataline studied art at Northwestern State University and created many beautiful pieces in ceramics, watercolors and oils. She continued to develop her skills by painting with local, professional artist Ethel Dixon and she participated in art shows at Kent House, River Oaks and First United Methodist Church. She sold several pieces at local art fairs and was commissioned to paint a private piece. Although she was extremely successful in her endeavors, it was the creativity and beauty of art that delighted her the most. Cataline also spent her later years devoted to her Catholic faith and growing her spiritual life. She went on many pilgrimages including trips to the Holy Land, Rome, Garanbandal, Fatima, Medjugorje and the Shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico. For many years she authored a newsletter where she was a fierce pro-life advocate. It blessed her to know that her prayers and writings played a small part in the recent reversal of Roe vs Wade. Cataline was a long-time member of St Frances Cabrini Hospital Women’s Auxiliary Pink Ladies where she also served as President. Cataline participated in the founding committee formed by Cabrini pastor Fr Gerald Foley and parishioner Olla Rae Chicola to begin The Manna House and up until the last 4 years she was an active member of the St Frances Cabrini Church Altar Society. Cataline was also a devoted member of the Marian Movement of Priests and Laity Cenacle who are devoted to prayer for priests. She was blessed with the friendship and faith ship of many wonderful people and clergy and she will be dearly remembered and sorely missed. Cataline was preceded in death by her father and mother, Dr Dimitri Filostrat and Viola Flynn Filostrat, her husband Paul David White, Jr, her daughter Mary Susan White Hurley and her sister Annette Filostrat McNulty and her husband Jim. She is survived by 4 children: John Stephen White (Barbara), Sally White Vandersypen (Joe), Sherry White Perkins (Gary) and Jennifer White Gilchrist (Scott), 19 grandchildren, 27 great grandchildren, her brother, Dimitri Filostrat and his wife Kay and many nieces and nephews. Pallbearers honored to serve are grandsons Ayo Bello, Leo Sayer, Landry Sayer, Garrett Perkins, Cullen Pearce and Garrett Gilchrist. Honorary pallbearers are her other grandsons: Brian Shiller, John White, Brandon White, Guy Duplantier, Jacob Hurley, Zachary Hurley and her three sons-in-law, Joe Vandersypen, Gary Perkins and Scott Gilchrist. Donations may be sent to St Frances Cabrini Church, 2215 E. Texas Avenue, Alexandria, Louisiana, 71301 or Catholic Charities of Central Louisiana, www.cccenla.org/donate.

Catalina "Cataline" Filostrat White

July 5, 1928 - June 29, 2022

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