White died Jan. 4 in Cody, Wyo.
she was born May 13, 1901 in Colonia Dubian, Wyo.
White moved from Mexico to Ramah in 1919. She and her husband started the White Elephant Storage and Transfer business and the owner of the Post Office and store in Fort Wingate before buying a ranch in Ramah. Her hobbies included keeping photo albums, stories, sewing, knitting, and quilting.
Survivors include her sons, John J. White, Ray White and Richard K. White; daughter, Minnie Cozzens; brother, Paul Merrill of Ramah; sister Dollie Lambson of Thoreau and 15 grandchildren.
White was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Kennedy White, parents, Thomas Allen Merrill and Mary Elisa James; daughters, Sarah Jane Lewis, Elizabeth May Betty Lewis, Barbara Helen White and Mary Eliza White and sisters, Ella Adair and Eulla Eliza.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangementsMay was born in Old Mexico and left there at the age of 11 with her parents Tom & Mary Merrill & 6 siblings during the Mexican Revolution on a Hay Wagon. They eventually moved to Ramah, NM. She went to work in Zuni for Mr. Kelsey at the age of 15. It was there she met her future husband Richard K. White.
White died Jan. 4 in Cody, Wyo.
she was born May 13, 1901 in Colonia Dubian, Wyo.
White moved from Mexico to Ramah in 1919. She and her husband started the White Elephant Storage and Transfer business and the owner of the Post Office and store in Fort Wingate before buying a ranch in Ramah. Her hobbies included keeping photo albums, stories, sewing, knitting, and quilting.
Survivors include her sons, John J. White, Ray White and Richard K. White; daughter, Minnie Cozzens; brother, Paul Merrill of Ramah; sister Dollie Lambson of Thoreau and 15 grandchildren.
White was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Kennedy White, parents, Thomas Allen Merrill and Mary Elisa James; daughters, Sarah Jane Lewis, Elizabeth May Betty Lewis, Barbara Helen White and Mary Eliza White and sisters, Ella Adair and Eulla Eliza.
Rollie Mortuary is in charge of arrangementsMay was born in Old Mexico and left there at the age of 11 with her parents Tom & Mary Merrill & 6 siblings during the Mexican Revolution on a Hay Wagon. They eventually moved to Ramah, NM. She went to work in Zuni for Mr. Kelsey at the age of 15. It was there she met her future husband Richard K. White.
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