Sam White, 78, of St. Marys, WV, died, May 10, 2006. Sam White was appointed Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of West Virginia comprised of Doddridge, Pleasants and Ritchie Counties, by Governor Arch A. Moore, Jr., on the 24th day of April, 1985. The following year Judge White was elected to and served the remainder of that term which expired at the end of 1992. He did not stand for re-election but continued in the active practice of law at St. Marys until his death. Prior to becoming Judge he was elected to two terms in the West Virginia State Senate for the Third Senatorial District comprised of Calhoun, Pleasants, Wirt and Wood Counties, but resigned in the first year of his second term to accept the appointment as Circuit Judge. Before that he was elected to two terms in the West Virginia House of Delegates and represented Pleasants and Ritchie Counties in that body from 1976 to 1980. He filed for Prosecuting Attorney of Pleasants County while still in law school and served Pleasants County for four consecutive terms as its Prosecuting Attorney from 1953 through 1969. Before becoming Circuit Judge he served for many years as a Master Commissioner for the Pleasants County Circuit Court and as a Commissioner of Accounts for the Pleasants County Commission. He served as city attorney for the cities of St. Marys and Belmont, West Virginia, for several years. He was educated at The Ohio State University and graduated from West Virginia University College of Law where he was a member of the Law Review and Phi Delta Phi legal fraternity. He was a member of Delta Tau Delta social fraternity. He served in the United States Army as a Technician Fourth Class in 1946 and 1947 in the Finance Department at Edgewood Arsenal Chemical Center, Maryland. He married Mary J. Stickel of Doddridge County on June 25, 1983, who survives, and he is the father of three sons, Bruce Mage White, who practices law in Parkersburg, WV, Fred Ray White, who practices law in Conyers, Georgia, and Max Harry White, who practices law in Keyser, West Virginia, and Frostburg, Maryland, three step sons, Danny Lee Stickel of Jane Lew, West Virginia, Herman S. Stickel, III, and Michael Wayne Stickel, both of West Union, West Virginia, six grandchildren, Christopher White, Rachel Grace White, Sarah Kathern White, Sheridan Alexandra White, Savannah Ashley White, and Nicholas Blake White, and seven step grandchildren. He is also survived by a brother, James D. White, an attorney who practiced law in Atlanta, Georga, and a sister, Mary Lee Harcha, of Portsmouth, Ohio. He was born in Princeton, West Virginia, on the 21st day of May, 1927, to the late Dr. Samuel Ray White and the late Ora Virginia Ward White. He was educated in the public schools in Charleston, West Virginia, but has made his home in St. Marys West Virginia, since graduation from law school in 1952. He was a member and trustee of the St. Marys United Methodist Church and St. Marys Masonic Lodge No. 41, and a member of the Scottish Rite and a Shriner. He was a member of the Kiwanis Club, American Legion, American Bar Association, West Virginia State Bar Association and past President of the Third Judicial Circuit Bar Association. He was an avid hunter, fisherman, gardener and an instrument rated pilot and airplane owner. He was especially proud of the scores of small children he taught to swim while he was lifeguard and swimming instructor at the Pleasants County Park swimming pool in the early 1950’s. It was during that time that he was instrumental in causing sidewalks, lighting and the baby pool to be constructed adjacent to the Park pool. During the last fifteen years of his life he and his wife raised, bred and rode Tennessee Walking hourses at their farm up Middle Island Creek. In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a step grandson. Services will be held Saturday, May 13, 2006, at 11 A. M. at the Ingram Funeral Home, St. Marys, WV with the Rev. Jim Kelly officiating. Interment will be in the St. Marys IOOF Cemetery, with military graveside services conducted by American Legion Post 79, VFW Post 222, and AMVETS Post 40. Calling hours from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 P. M. Friday at the funeral home.