Forrest WHITE

WHITE, WORSLEY, MCILRAVY, GREEN, CHEESE, SCHOFIELD

Posted By: Sharon R Becker (email)
Date: 3/4/2009 at 15:07:53

Creston News Advertiser
Creston, Union County, Iowa
Thursday, March 3, 2005

OBITUARY - FORREST WHITE

Forrest WHITE, 92, of Creston died March 1, 2005, at Creston Nursing and Rehabilitation Center.

Services will be 11 a.m. Thursday, March 3, at Powers Funeral Home, 601 New York Ave. The Rev. Tim MAXA will officiate the service. Open visitation will be 2 to 8 p.m. today with the family receiving friends 7 to 8 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. Masonic service at the funeral home. Memorials may be directed to Platte Center Church or charity of donor's choice.

Mr. WHITE, son of Edna Louise (WORSLEY) and Chauncey C. WHITE, was born April 5, 1912, in Kent. He graduated from Creston High School in 1931. On March 5, 1940, he married Mary Darlyne McILRAVY at the Christian Church in Creston. He lived and farmed near Kent two years, near Diagonal 17 years, then moving back to the family home east of Kent where he continued to farm until moving to Creston in 1993. He was active in the Platte Center Church, Iowa Cattlemen's Association, American Simmental Cattle Association, Farm Bureau, Masonic Lodge, 4-H, Iowa Corn Growers Association and IAWA Barn Foundation.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Darlyne of Creston; three sons, Ronald (wife Dianna) WHITE of Lenox, Alan (wife Linda) WHITE of Malcolm and Galen (wife Diane) WHITE of Kent; daughter Phyllis (husband Lanny) GREEN of Dallas, Texas; sister Dorothy CHEESE of Fort Collins, Colo.; 11 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents and two sisters, Eugenia SCHOFIELD and Erma WHITE.

Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, March of 2009