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Obituary- White, William 2

WILLIAM D. WHITE
William Douglas White died early Monday, February 9, 1981, at Stanford, Calif. 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 was 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, Illinois; San Diego, Seattle, Hawaii, Texas, Florida, and Massachusetts. After Pearl Harbor, Bill saw action from Australia to Korea. He was honorably discharge din December 1945, and returned to California where he spent the rest of his life.

He was graduated from San Mateo, Calif., 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, Calif.

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, South San Francisco, Calif.; three aunts, Grace White, Rossville, Gwen McAfee, Decater, Ala., and Mildred Fisher, Topeka; two uncles, Vernon Myers, Rossville, and Clark Myers, Decater, Ga.; his cherished friend Lois Faucher, San Carlos, Calif.; 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. Politically he was a Democrat.

Inurnment was in California.


William D. White
SAN CARLOS, Calif. - William Douglas White, 59, San Carlos, died Feb. 9 at a Palo Alto hospital after a Iona illness.

He was born Nov. 18, 1921, the son of Charles Preston and Edna Marie White. He attended public schools in the Rossville and Delia, Kan., area, and was graduated from Della High School. He was graduated from the University of Kansas William Allen White School of Journalism in 1951 and lived in California since 1952.

Mr. White was a salesman in California for the past 15 years. He was a Navy veteran of World War II.

He was married to Agnes Martinek in 1949. She survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Sheree Jo White, Milpitas, Calif.; and a sister, Mrs. Doris Townsend, San Francisco.

Mr. White was cremated. Memorial services were Feb. 12 at White Oaks Chapel, San Carlos Military graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Feb. 20 in Rossville Cemetery. Memorial contributions may be made to the Hematology Department, Stanford University Medical Center, Palo Alto, Calif.

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