Obituary of Venetta Mae Mitchell

Venetta Mitchell, 79, of Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey, was born December 6, 1930, in Newport News, Virginia, to Manley F. White, Sr., and Leola White. After graduating from high school, she moved to Atlantic City where she worked as a professional seamstress for GEA Thomas and Art Barlow Awning & Associates for many years. Subsequently, she was employed by the Sands Casino and Taj Mahal Casino as a slot machine attendant. She retired from the Taj in 1996. She was a fulltime parishioner and Mother in the Grace Family Cathedral Church patored by Bishop Robert F. Hargrove, Jr., until she went home to be with her Heavenly Father. She is predeceased by: her loving husband of twenty-two years, William "Billie" Mitchell; siblings, Dolly Rachel White, Manley White, Doswell White, Yvonne Street and Neldon Dear Hope. She leaves to cherish her life: sisters, Cleopatra Banks and Rudi Taliaferro; brother, Arthur White, Sr. (anne); daughters, Patricdia A. Tyner, Lynne T. Washington (Richard), Robin T. Holland (Raymond), and Judi L. Nickerson (Gerald); grandchildren, Sakeenah A. Davis, Rachel E. Holland, Gerald "Trey" Nickerson, III, and Jordan W. Nickerson; great grandson, Deondre Davis; and a host of other family, her church family, her loving caregiver, Keisha James, and many beloved friends.