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Mae Zerilda <I>Blackburn</I> White

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Mae Zerilda Blackburn White

Birth
Forbes, Holt County, Missouri, USA
Death
23 Jan 1978 (aged 83)
Los Angeles County, California, USA
Burial
Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA GPS-Latitude: 33.8664972, Longitude: -118.3604056
Memorial ID
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Mae was born in Forbes, Holt Co, MO (although the city may have been Oregon, instead) to Elihu Merritt Blackburn and Zerilda Caroline Smith. She married around 1918 to Glade L. White, founder of White and Day Mortuary and Pacific Crest Cemetery. They had 3 children together. Mae was a member of the Playa Linda Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine in Redondo Beach, the Hermosa Beach Women's Club, and a member of the St. Cross Episcopal Church. She was living with one of her daughters in Sierra Madre when she died. She is interred with her husband's ashes placed in a hollowed out Bible in her hands.
Copyright Cheri Mello. All rights reserved.

Mae was born in Forbes, Holt Co, MO (although the city may have been Oregon, instead) to Elihu Merritt Blackburn and Zerilda Caroline Smith. She married around 1918 to Glade L. White, founder of White and Day Mortuary and Pacific Crest Cemetery. They had 3 children together. Mae was a member of the Playa Linda Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, the White Shrine in Redondo Beach, the Hermosa Beach Women's Club, and a member of the St. Cross Episcopal Church. She was living with one of her daughters in Sierra Madre when she died. She is interred with her husband's ashes placed in a hollowed out Bible in her hands.


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  • Created by: Cheri Mello
  • Added: Sep 2, 2007
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/21312315/mae_zerilda-white: accessed ), memorial page for Mae Zerilda Blackburn White (10 Jan 1895–23 Jan 1978), Find a Grave Memorial ID 21312315, citing Pacific Crest Cemetery, Redondo Beach, Los Angeles County, California, USA; Maintained by Cheri Mello (contributor 46911365).