Obit: White, James H. #2 (1885 - 1962)

Contact: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org

Surnames: White, Schwieso, Brussow, Thompson, Bauer, Hendrickson, Vivoda

----- Source: Loyal Tribune (Loyal, Clark Co., Wis.) 08/30/1962

----- White, James H. #2 (21 APR 1885 - 27 AUG 1962)

James H. White, 77, died suddenly at his home in Loyal (Clark Co., Wis.) about 12:30 Monday afternoon after suffering a heart attack.

Funeral services will be held Friday at 2:00 p.m. at the Loyal Methodist Church with Rev. Paul Doering officiating. Burial will be in the Loyal Cemetery. Friends may call at the Myre Funeral Home Wednesday evening.

Mr. White was born April 21, 1885 in the town of York. His first marriage to Eva Schwieso was in November of 1915 at Loyal. She died in 1945. His second marriage to Mrs. Clara Brussow, who survives him, took place on April 9, 1949 at Appleton.

Mr. Whtie spent his early eyars in Montana as a surveyor. When he was 24 years old he attended a business school in La Crosse and later attended barber school in Seymour.

About a year after his first marriage he came to a farm in the town of Eaton, Clark County. In 1949 he retired from farming and moved to the city of Loyal where he did carpenter work.

For 25 years Mr. White served as clerk on the Lyons School Board. He was an officier of the Greenwood Co-op for 12 years and for five years her was a director of the Neillsville Milk Products Co. He was a member of the Modern Woodmen of America and of the Loyal Methodist Church.

He is survived by two sons, Kenneth of Rockford, Ill.; and S/Sgt. Donald White of Okinawa; three daughters, Mrs. Pernell (Eula) Thompson, Columbus; Mrs. Robert (Elaine) Bauer, Greenwood; and Mrs. Harold (Melva) Hendrickson, Greenwood; one step-daughter, Mrs. Henry (Shirley) Vivoda, Appleton; one step-son, Duane Brussow, Milwaukee; 18 grandchildren; three brothers, Herbert White, Loyal, and William White and Frank White, Spokane, Wash.; and two sisters, Mrs. Alice Schwieso, Rockford, Ill., and Mrs. Effie Schwieso, Greenwood.

One brother and four sisters preceded him in death.