Eulogy for Pam,
Mercy and Miracles..

CCHS BEST CLASS, THE CLASS OF 1975…

Happy 2026!

As we start into a new year I can’t stop but look back to my 10th grade year of high school. My parents made the decision to send me to Charleston Catholic. Being the dramatic teenage girl I just knew my life was NEVER going to be the same !!!

Fast forward 50 years...Let me tell you the best choice they EVER DID!!!

Here it is 50yrs later and my classmates are helping care me into the most challenging years of my life!!

The compassion and love they have shown in texts setting a go-fund-me for me and most of all their unconditional love!

Please know the CCHS 1975 class you are with me always!!

There is not a better eulogy for Pam than that Facebook post from January 2026. She was the Spirit of the Class of ’75. Working with her on 2 reunions, I think the only 2 I attended, she saw and loved her time at Catholic and with us, her class, as some of the happiest days of her life. She shared this love in how she kept us together. Her brother, Greg, said she has a way of pulling you in. She pulled me in.

The 50th reunion was her final gift. She was persistent to fulfill a vision of recreating those days at CCHS. Worried that it wouldn’t meet our expectations.

And then exuberant and overjoyed seeing all of us laugh, smile and reconnect. It was all she had hoped it would be.

The fight of her life was in front of her, yet her battles from the past were beginning to disappear.

Today we honor the Fighting Irish Spirit of the class of ’75, Pam. I will finish with words from the Heart of that Class that speaks for both of them.

Time Standing Still..

By the late Steve Suppa

Class President

I told you once that time stands still

When I see your smile, I see the thrills

You asked me why I must go

I answered you…It has to be so

Well then I say all things come to an end

That the cycle of life is starting to begin

That the times we shared are in the past

And the dreams we have are meant to last

I’ll tell you often, it has to be

That part of you is now part of me

The times we shared you cannot change

And I hope your life is now re-arranged

Everything I do, I give all of myself

My time to you is of my greatest wealth

The sun I say, will always rise

And I hope I’ve helped you open your eyes

For now you know there are two sides of this story

Our future happiness is what I seek, not the glory

Only for a moment, must time move on

You can’t replace what is never gone

I’ll say it again that time stands still

When your mind and heart possess the will

Time must move on, and for that you have grown

The memories of our time standing still

Are among the best I’ve ever known.

Pam Burton White made me give this eulogy. Miracles and Mercy. Peace. John.