Okmulgee Daily Times, Saturday, 10 Oct 1942
Stroke Is Fatal For Mrs. White
Mother Of Legion Post's Namesake
Mrs. Elizabeth Leon White, Okmulgee county's most famous Gold Star mother and the mother of Edwin K. White, for whom the Okmulgee Legion post is named, died at 6:54 p. m. yesterday at the Ming-Vernon clinic.
The 68-year-old long-time resident of the county is the second Gold Star mother of the auxiliary of the local Legion post to be claimed by death in R the last two years. Mrs. M. E. a Ward, who died a little over a year ago, was the first.
Mrs. White suffered a stroke Thursday at her home on the Beggs road and was brought to the local clinic, where she died yesterday evening.
She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary of the Edwin K. White post and was a member of the First a Methodist church at Beggs.
Surviving are the husband, Charles E. White, of the home; P one daughter, Mrs. Janie Mae B. Crunk, Beggs; two sons, Clyde White, Okmulgee, and Gordon 1 K. White, Waco, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. LeCount, Beggs; Mrs. Thurman Mathews, Texarkana, Texas, and Mrs. August Carter, Marshall, Texas; two brothers, J. Ollie Hargis, Smyrna, Ga., and A. S. Hargis, Birmingham, Ala. Six grandchildren, Allen Carol Harbour and Albert Crunk jr., both of Beggs; James Edwin and Nancy Sue White, Okmulgee, and Denise Ann and Duane Keith White, Waco, Texas.
Attendants at the Buchanan Funeral home where the body was taken said last night that funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Stroke Is Fatal For Mrs. White
Mother Of Legion Post's Namesake
Mrs. Elizabeth Leon White, Okmulgee county's most famous Gold Star mother and the mother of Edwin K. White, for whom the Okmulgee Legion post is named, died at 6:54 p. m. yesterday at the Ming-Vernon clinic.
The 68-year-old long-time resident of the county is the second Gold Star mother of the auxiliary of the local Legion post to be claimed by death in R the last two years. Mrs. M. E. a Ward, who died a little over a year ago, was the first.
Mrs. White suffered a stroke Thursday at her home on the Beggs road and was brought to the local clinic, where she died yesterday evening.
She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary of the Edwin K. White post and was a member of the First a Methodist church at Beggs.
Surviving are the husband, Charles E. White, of the home; P one daughter, Mrs. Janie Mae B. Crunk, Beggs; two sons, Clyde White, Okmulgee, and Gordon 1 K. White, Waco, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. LeCount, Beggs; Mrs. Thurman Mathews, Texarkana, Texas, and Mrs. August Carter, Marshall, Texas; two brothers, J. Ollie Hargis, Smyrna, Ga., and A. S. Hargis, Birmingham, Ala. Six grandchildren, Allen Carol Harbour and Albert Crunk jr., both of Beggs; James Edwin and Nancy Sue White, Okmulgee, and Denise Ann and Duane Keith White, Waco, Texas.
Attendants at the Buchanan Funeral home where the body was taken said last night that funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Okmulgee Daily Times, Saturday, 10 Oct 1942
Stroke Is Fatal For Mrs. White
Mother Of Legion Post's Namesake
Mrs. Elizabeth Leon White, Okmulgee county's most famous Gold Star mother and the mother of Edwin K. White, for whom the Okmulgee Legion post is named, died at 6:54 p. m. yesterday at the Ming-Vernon clinic.
The 68-year-old long-time resident of the county is the second Gold Star mother of the auxiliary of the local Legion post to be claimed by death in R the last two years. Mrs. M. E. a Ward, who died a little over a year ago, was the first.
Mrs. White suffered a stroke Thursday at her home on the Beggs road and was brought to the local clinic, where she died yesterday evening.
She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary of the Edwin K. White post and was a member of the First a Methodist church at Beggs.
Surviving are the husband, Charles E. White, of the home; P one daughter, Mrs. Janie Mae B. Crunk, Beggs; two sons, Clyde White, Okmulgee, and Gordon 1 K. White, Waco, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. LeCount, Beggs; Mrs. Thurman Mathews, Texarkana, Texas, and Mrs. August Carter, Marshall, Texas; two brothers, J. Ollie Hargis, Smyrna, Ga., and A. S. Hargis, Birmingham, Ala. Six grandchildren, Allen Carol Harbour and Albert Crunk jr., both of Beggs; James Edwin and Nancy Sue White, Okmulgee, and Denise Ann and Duane Keith White, Waco, Texas.
Attendants at the Buchanan Funeral home where the body was taken said last night that funeral arrangements are incomplete.
Stroke Is Fatal For Mrs. White
Mother Of Legion Post's Namesake
Mrs. Elizabeth Leon White, Okmulgee county's most famous Gold Star mother and the mother of Edwin K. White, for whom the Okmulgee Legion post is named, died at 6:54 p. m. yesterday at the Ming-Vernon clinic.
The 68-year-old long-time resident of the county is the second Gold Star mother of the auxiliary of the local Legion post to be claimed by death in R the last two years. Mrs. M. E. a Ward, who died a little over a year ago, was the first.
Mrs. White suffered a stroke Thursday at her home on the Beggs road and was brought to the local clinic, where she died yesterday evening.
She was a member of the American Legion auxiliary of the Edwin K. White post and was a member of the First a Methodist church at Beggs.
Surviving are the husband, Charles E. White, of the home; P one daughter, Mrs. Janie Mae B. Crunk, Beggs; two sons, Clyde White, Okmulgee, and Gordon 1 K. White, Waco, Texas; three sisters, Mrs. J. B. LeCount, Beggs; Mrs. Thurman Mathews, Texarkana, Texas, and Mrs. August Carter, Marshall, Texas; two brothers, J. Ollie Hargis, Smyrna, Ga., and A. S. Hargis, Birmingham, Ala. Six grandchildren, Allen Carol Harbour and Albert Crunk jr., both of Beggs; James Edwin and Nancy Sue White, Okmulgee, and Denise Ann and Duane Keith White, Waco, Texas.
Attendants at the Buchanan Funeral home where the body was taken said last night that funeral arrangements are incomplete.
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