White, John Creston (1919-2012)

WHITE, CARLSON

Posted By: Paul Nagy (email)
Date: 8/20/2012 at 21:15:35

John Creston White
September 11, 1919 - August 9, 2012

LAKE MILLS: John C. White, 92, of Lake Mills, died Thursday, August 9, 2012, at the Lake Mills Care Center in Lake Mills.

John Creston White was born on September 11, 1919, near Corinth, Mississippi, to Anna C. and Benjamin F. White. In 1921, the family moved to Arkansas, settling near Wynne. He attended rural Cross County School where he excelled in athletics before graduating from Wynne in 1939. He enlisted in the USAF in 1940, serving in England, North Africa, and Italy during World War II. In 1945, he entered the University of Arkansas and graduated in 1949.

In 1946, he married Eleanor Carlson of Shickley, Nebraska. They had two sons: Ronald, in 1949, and Mylan, in 1950. From 1949 to 1951, he taught school in Missouri. The family moved to Cedar Falls in June of 1951 where he was employed as Director of Recreation for seventeen years. He, then, served as the first Director of Parks and Recreation for the city of Muscatine for eleven years. After his retirement in 1981, he lived in Charles City. In 2004, he moved to Lake Mills. He loved people, his church, fishing, hunting, golf, and sports in general.

He is survived by one son, Mylan; one brother, Luke, and his wife, Ann; two grandchildren and their spouses, Julie and Tony and Daniel and Denise; and several great-grandchildren as well as many nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his son, Ronald; his wife of fifty-two years, Eleanor; his daughter-in-law, Karen; his parents; his brother, Jesse; and his sister, Hattye.

No formal services will be held here. Instead, they will be held in Shickley, Nebraska, at a later date where his ashes will be interred next to his wife and son.

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