My Beloved Sister
Obituary written by her children:
Born in her grandmother's house in Lanark, Illinois, to Raymond Edwin White, Sr. and Beatrice Ellen White (nee Rahn). Barb was the second of four children. Preceded in death by brothers Raymond (Bud) Edwin White, Jr., Gregory P. White, and survived by her sister of Tucson, AZ. Barb was an army brat and graduate of Heidelberg High School in Germany. She learned early the art of making new friends and keeping them across time and miles. She is survived by her four adoring children. She and her husband of 60 years, Donald, raised their children in Saint Louis Park, MN, where they were also members of Union Congregational Church. After retirement they moved to Webster, Wisconsin where Barb became a member of the First Baptist Church. After the death of her husband, she relocated to Warrenton to live under the care of her youngest daughter, Nancy, in the home of Gary Moore. At the age of 80 and having left behind her home, her community, her car, her church family, her cat, and friends too numerous to mention, she took on the challenge of creating a new life for herself. She found a new church and friends at Bethany Lutheran of Astoria where she was quickly embraced by the quilting group. Barb was an avid quilter and gifted her works to many. She was a kind and generous person with a sharp wit which dropped jaws and elicited laughs. She was a positive and magnetic force upon all who knew her. Barb fought and survived metastatic breast cancer, she lived bravely with Parkinson's disease, and after an exhausting and arduous battle succumbed to myelofibrosis. She never complained as she stoically endured the loss of her health and she never wavered from her faith in Jesus Christ. Exhibiting tremendous will, courage, and grace, she died peacefully in her home surrounded by love and the abiding attention of her family and was delivered, assuredly, into the loving arms of her Savior. Interment Monday, August 1st at 12:00 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN with luncheon following.
Names of living people have been removed from obituary.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sun., 19 Jun 2016.
Obituary written by her children:
Born in her grandmother's house in Lanark, Illinois, to Raymond Edwin White, Sr. and Beatrice Ellen White (nee Rahn). Barb was the second of four children. Preceded in death by brothers Raymond (Bud) Edwin White, Jr., Gregory P. White, and survived by her sister of Tucson, AZ. Barb was an army brat and graduate of Heidelberg High School in Germany. She learned early the art of making new friends and keeping them across time and miles. She is survived by her four adoring children. She and her husband of 60 years, Donald, raised their children in Saint Louis Park, MN, where they were also members of Union Congregational Church. After retirement they moved to Webster, Wisconsin where Barb became a member of the First Baptist Church. After the death of her husband, she relocated to Warrenton to live under the care of her youngest daughter, Nancy, in the home of Gary Moore. At the age of 80 and having left behind her home, her community, her car, her church family, her cat, and friends too numerous to mention, she took on the challenge of creating a new life for herself. She found a new church and friends at Bethany Lutheran of Astoria where she was quickly embraced by the quilting group. Barb was an avid quilter and gifted her works to many. She was a kind and generous person with a sharp wit which dropped jaws and elicited laughs. She was a positive and magnetic force upon all who knew her. Barb fought and survived metastatic breast cancer, she lived bravely with Parkinson's disease, and after an exhausting and arduous battle succumbed to myelofibrosis. She never complained as she stoically endured the loss of her health and she never wavered from her faith in Jesus Christ. Exhibiting tremendous will, courage, and grace, she died peacefully in her home surrounded by love and the abiding attention of her family and was delivered, assuredly, into the loving arms of her Savior. Interment Monday, August 1st at 12:00 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN with luncheon following.
Names of living people have been removed from obituary.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sun., 19 Jun 2016.
My Beloved Sister
Obituary written by her children:
Born in her grandmother's house in Lanark, Illinois, to Raymond Edwin White, Sr. and Beatrice Ellen White (nee Rahn). Barb was the second of four children. Preceded in death by brothers Raymond (Bud) Edwin White, Jr., Gregory P. White, and survived by her sister of Tucson, AZ. Barb was an army brat and graduate of Heidelberg High School in Germany. She learned early the art of making new friends and keeping them across time and miles. She is survived by her four adoring children. She and her husband of 60 years, Donald, raised their children in Saint Louis Park, MN, where they were also members of Union Congregational Church. After retirement they moved to Webster, Wisconsin where Barb became a member of the First Baptist Church. After the death of her husband, she relocated to Warrenton to live under the care of her youngest daughter, Nancy, in the home of Gary Moore. At the age of 80 and having left behind her home, her community, her car, her church family, her cat, and friends too numerous to mention, she took on the challenge of creating a new life for herself. She found a new church and friends at Bethany Lutheran of Astoria where she was quickly embraced by the quilting group. Barb was an avid quilter and gifted her works to many. She was a kind and generous person with a sharp wit which dropped jaws and elicited laughs. She was a positive and magnetic force upon all who knew her. Barb fought and survived metastatic breast cancer, she lived bravely with Parkinson's disease, and after an exhausting and arduous battle succumbed to myelofibrosis. She never complained as she stoically endured the loss of her health and she never wavered from her faith in Jesus Christ. Exhibiting tremendous will, courage, and grace, she died peacefully in her home surrounded by love and the abiding attention of her family and was delivered, assuredly, into the loving arms of her Savior. Interment Monday, August 1st at 12:00 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN with luncheon following.
Names of living people have been removed from obituary.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sun., 19 Jun 2016.
Obituary written by her children:
Born in her grandmother's house in Lanark, Illinois, to Raymond Edwin White, Sr. and Beatrice Ellen White (nee Rahn). Barb was the second of four children. Preceded in death by brothers Raymond (Bud) Edwin White, Jr., Gregory P. White, and survived by her sister of Tucson, AZ. Barb was an army brat and graduate of Heidelberg High School in Germany. She learned early the art of making new friends and keeping them across time and miles. She is survived by her four adoring children. She and her husband of 60 years, Donald, raised their children in Saint Louis Park, MN, where they were also members of Union Congregational Church. After retirement they moved to Webster, Wisconsin where Barb became a member of the First Baptist Church. After the death of her husband, she relocated to Warrenton to live under the care of her youngest daughter, Nancy, in the home of Gary Moore. At the age of 80 and having left behind her home, her community, her car, her church family, her cat, and friends too numerous to mention, she took on the challenge of creating a new life for herself. She found a new church and friends at Bethany Lutheran of Astoria where she was quickly embraced by the quilting group. Barb was an avid quilter and gifted her works to many. She was a kind and generous person with a sharp wit which dropped jaws and elicited laughs. She was a positive and magnetic force upon all who knew her. Barb fought and survived metastatic breast cancer, she lived bravely with Parkinson's disease, and after an exhausting and arduous battle succumbed to myelofibrosis. She never complained as she stoically endured the loss of her health and she never wavered from her faith in Jesus Christ. Exhibiting tremendous will, courage, and grace, she died peacefully in her home surrounded by love and the abiding attention of her family and was delivered, assuredly, into the loving arms of her Savior. Interment Monday, August 1st at 12:00 at Fort Snelling National Cemetery in Minneapolis, MN with luncheon following.
Names of living people have been removed from obituary.
Minneapolis Star Tribune, Sun., 19 Jun 2016.
