NATCHEZ — All you need is family.

Needra White knows that in good times or bad, family can get you through life.

And when The Dart landed on the Vidalia Riverfront Saturday — the two-month anniversary of the death of White’s mother — the Ferriday resident was spending time with the most important people in her life.

White, her husband, Vernon, and her sister, Tonya Goodman, and other friends and family were sipping cold treats from Sonic cups and watching their grandchildren run through sprays of water on the splash pad.

Goodman drove in from Lafayette, and White decided the riverfront was the perfect place to spend the scorching hot day with the children.

Goodman recently moved to Lafayette from Houston and said she enjoys being closer to her sister, children and grandchildren.

“Times like these, they are really priceless,” she said, looking over at the squealing children splashing in the water.

White and Goodman’s mother, Sharlene Whitehead, was the center of their family.

“She was really the glue that held everybody together,” White said. “When momma and daddy separated when we were young, it was just us girls. We had each other.”

The months since their mother’s death have been tough, the sisters said, but having each other has been their saving grace.

“It does help us with healing,” White said. “Being with family, that’s what life is about anyway.

“I always tell people, ‘You think your friends are the world. But when you’re older, you realize that family is all that really matters in the world.’”