WILLIAM J. WHITE
April 4, 1960
Decatur Review
Page 15
Decatur, Illinois
William J. White
Rites Are Wednesday
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Requiem High Mass for William J. (Bill) White, 74, of 1424 N. Oakland Ave., will be at 9 a.m. Wednesday in St. Patrick Catholic Church with burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Friends may call at the J. J. Moran & Sons Funeral Home after 9 a.m. Tuesday and Rosary will be recited there at 7 p.m. Tuesday by members of the St. Vincent De Paul Society.
Mr. White was dead on arrival at Decatur and Macon County Hospital at 1:30 a.m. Sunday.
Mr. White was active in Republican politics for many years in Decatur and served as a precinct committeeman for 16 years.
He retired in 1955 as a yard conductor for the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. He had worked for 50 years for railroads including 14 years, from 1902 to 1916, in the Wabash Railroad car shops. He also worked three years for the A. E. Staley Mfg. Co. and had been with the B&O 36 years at the time of his retirement.
He was born June 20, 1885, in Decatur, a son of Humphrey and Elizabeth Lawler White.
Mr. White married Wilhelmina Thomalla in Decatur on Dec. 19, 1907.
He was a member of St. Patrick Catholic Church and the Brother- hood of Railway Trainmen.
Mr. White leaves his wife; a son, C. Elmer, Decatur; daughters, Mrs. Bernice E. Laffan, Chicago; Mrs. Dorothy M. Brown and Mrs. Betty F. Mulligan, both of Decatur; and sisters, Mrs. Catherine Varadi and Mrs. Mary F. Davern, both of Decatur; and Mrs. Lydia Gosnell, Hammond, Ind.
Copyright© by Antoinette, July 7, 2001
