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Ada Margaret <I>McKay</I> White

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Ada Margaret McKay White

Birth
Illinois City, Rock Island County, Illinois, USA
Death
5 Dec 1987 (aged 79)
Sigourney, Keokuk County, Iowa, USA
Burial
Thornburg, Keokuk County, Iowa, USA Add to Map
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Ada M. White, 79, of What Cheer died
Saturday, Dec. 5 at Keokuk County
Hospital in Sigourney.
She was born November 30,1098 in
Illinois City, Ill., the daughter of
James S. and Mabel Martin McKay.
She married Samuel L. Carner in Jan,
1929. She later married Ernest L.
White in Nashua.
She was a telephone operator for the
City of Gibson for many years and later
owned and operated the White Nursing
Home in What Cheer for 34 years. She
had lived in What Cheer since 1954 and
prior to that lived in Gibson

She was preceded in death by her
parents, a brother, a sister and two
grandsons, a half-brother and two sons-
in-law.
Funeral services were held Tuesday,
Dec.8 at 2 p.m., at the Harden Funeral
Chapel in What Cheer with Rev. Kenneth
Arentson officiating.

Burial was in Sixteen Cemetery near
Thornburg.

What Cheer Chronicle: Dec. 10, 1987

NOTE: Marriage License Application March, 1945 Scott County, Iowa

Ernest L. White of Grinnell, Ia., and Miss Ada Carmer of Keokuk, Ia.

Davenport Daily Times: March 17, 1945 Page 14
Ada M. White, 79, of What Cheer died
Saturday, Dec. 5 at Keokuk County
Hospital in Sigourney.
She was born November 30,1098 in
Illinois City, Ill., the daughter of
James S. and Mabel Martin McKay.
She married Samuel L. Carner in Jan,
1929. She later married Ernest L.
White in Nashua.
She was a telephone operator for the
City of Gibson for many years and later
owned and operated the White Nursing
Home in What Cheer for 34 years. She
had lived in What Cheer since 1954 and
prior to that lived in Gibson

She was preceded in death by her
parents, a brother, a sister and two
grandsons, a half-brother and two sons-
in-law.
Funeral services were held Tuesday,
Dec.8 at 2 p.m., at the Harden Funeral
Chapel in What Cheer with Rev. Kenneth
Arentson officiating.

Burial was in Sixteen Cemetery near
Thornburg.

What Cheer Chronicle: Dec. 10, 1987

NOTE: Marriage License Application March, 1945 Scott County, Iowa

Ernest L. White of Grinnell, Ia., and Miss Ada Carmer of Keokuk, Ia.

Davenport Daily Times: March 17, 1945 Page 14


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