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Note: Divorced: 4 Mar 1971 in San Rafael, CA OBITUARY: WILLIAM D. WHITE
William Douglas White died early Monday, February 9, 1981, at Stanford,
California. He had leukemia. Mr. White was born November 18, 1921, near
Delia and attended 12 years of school in Delia and Rossville. He was known
locally as "Billy". He graduated from Rossville high school in 1939, and
in September of that year joined the U. S. Navy. During his Navy career,
he was stationed at the Great Lakes Training Base, IL; San Diego, Seattle,
Hawaii, Texas, Florida, and Massachusetts. After Pearl Harbor, Bill saw
action from Australia to Korea. He was honorably discharged in December
1945, and returned to California where he spent the rest of his life.
He was graduated from San Mateo, CA in 1949, and from the Kansas University
School of Journalism in 1951. For several years he was a reporter for the
"Independent Journal" in San Rafael, CA. Bill was the older son of the
three children of Charles Preston and Edna Marie Myers White. He was
preceded in death by his younger brother, Gerald Preston in 1924, his father
in 1962, and his mother in 1976. Survivors include his sister, Doris
Townsend, S. San Francisco, CA, three aunts, Grace White, Rossville, Gwen
McAfee, Decatur, AL and Mildred Fisher, Topeka; two uncles, Vernon Myers,
Rossville, and Clark Myers, Decatur, GA; his cherished friend Lois Faucher,
San Carlos, CA; many cousins and close friends. As a youngster Bill attended
the Delia Presbyterian Church. He had been a member of Palo Alto/Stanford
branch of the NAACP for about ten years and politcally he was a Democrat.
Interment was in California.
Last week the obituary of William "Bill" D. White was printed. Mr. White
died of leukemia February 9, 1981 at Stanford, CA. He was 59 years old.
Omitted from the list of survivors was his wife, the former Agnes Martinek
of Rossville, who he married in May 1949, and who now lives in San Rafael,
CA and his daughter, Sheree Jo, who also lives in California. His body was
cremated.... The remains were shipped to Rossville, where graveside services
and burial will be at the Rossville Cemetery on Friday, February 20, at
10 a.m. Memorial contributions may be made to the hemotology department,
Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, CA.
St. Mary's Star Feb 17, 1961
SS# was 510-16-8927
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