Gerald Eugene White
Born: October 29, 1924 in Gage, Musselshell Co., Montana1
Died: October 20, 1973 in Des Moines,Polk Co., Iowa1
Buried: Lot 105
Married: Norma Irene Covalt on December 14, 1946 in Audubon, Audobon Co.,Iowa1
Children: Marcha, Lorraine, and James
Married: Hattie Mae Benskin on March 1, 1973
Parents: Ray Nicholas and Lilla Pearl (Sturdevant) White1
Military: W.W.II
Gerald Eugene White
Services for Gerald Eugene White, 48, of 1220 Forty-sixth St., who died Saturday at Iowa Methodist Hospital in Des Moines of injuries received in a car accident near Adair Thursday, will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Brethren Church in Panora. Burial will be at the Brethren Cemetery there. [submitter's note: The body was reinterred at Sugar Grove Cemetery in Jasper County]
Mr. White was a clerk with the Iowa State Liquor Store in Des Moines. He was a Marine Corps veteran of World War II.
Survivors include his wife, Hattie Mae of Des Moines; three children, Marcha, Lorraine, and James, all of Denver, Colo.; two grandchildren, eight stepchildren; 12 step grandchildren; his mother, four sisters; and two brothers, including Joe White of Des Moines. ~ Des Moines Register, October 22, 1973, page 11.
1. World Connect entry submitted by Kenneth A. Ray
Hattie Mae Benskin White
Born: December 1, 1914 in Wesley, Kossuth Co., Iowa
Died: March 19, 1997 in Grinnell, Poweshiek Co., Iowa
Married: Donald Kinnaird November 20, 1935 in Laurel, Marshall Co., Iowa
Children: Wendell Max, Donna M. Grovenburg, Joan Kae Moyer, Judith Rae McCulley, Donald Wayne, Robert Earl, William John, and Jerry Lee
Married: Gerald White in Johnston, Polk Co., Iowa
Parents: Curtis and Lillie Hutchinson Benskin
Hattie Mae White
GRINNELL, Iowa - Hattie Mae (Pat) White, 82, of 90 Fourth Ave., Grinnell, died Wednesday, March 19 at Grinnell Regional Medical Center.
Funeral services will be held at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Smith Funeral Home in Grinnell. Burial will be in the Sugar Grove Cemetery near Newton.
Family visitation will be from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Friday at the funeral home. Memorials to the Shriner's Children's Hospital will be accepted.
Born Dec. 2, 1914 near Wesley, Mrs. White was the daughter of Curtis and Lillie Hutchinson Benskin. She graduated from Laurel High School in 1933.
On Nov 20, 1935, she married Donald Kinnaird. The couple farmed near Laurel, Searsboro, Grinnell and later near Wesley. On March 1, 1973 she married Gerald White and was employed by Northwest Hospital in Des Moines. Following the death of her second husband Mrs. White moved to Grinnell in the mid 1970s. She retired in 1981 and moved to Brookside South.
She was a member of the First Federated Church of Des Moines, the Order of Eastern Star, Rebekah Lodge and the White Shrine of Newton.
Survivors include five sons, including Wendell and Earl Kinnaird, both of Grinnell; three daughters, Donna M. Grovenburg, Joan K. Moyer and Judith R. McCulley, all of Grinnell; 17 grand children; four great grandchildren; and a brother.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband and one brother, Arthur Curtis Benskin. ~ The Newton Daily News, March 20, 1997.