Obit of White, Viola Gladys Leitner - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 30 Dec 2007 Return to Roger Mills County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Fairview Cemetery--Durham OK Surnames: White, Leitner, Hundley, Jones Originally posted at: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.oklahoma.counties.rogermills/8633/mb.ashx Viola Gladys (Leitner) White was born April 29, 1916 to John Wesley, Sr. and Flora McKee (Hundley) Leitner on the Leitner Homestead northwest of Crawford. Viola was next to the oldest of five children. Viola attended grade school at Clifford in a one-room schoolhouse. She then transferred to Durham where she graduated high school in May of 1934. On April 18, 1935 Viola married William Pratt (Bill) White. To thids union three sons were born. Bill and Viola lived on the Hundley family homestead (Viola's maternal grandparents homeplace) where they farmed and ran cattle. After Bill passed away in February of 1968, Viola continue4d to lived on the family farm and run cattle. She also attended Beauty College at Clinton, Oklahoma and opened a beauty shop at Durham after losing Bill. Viola grews up in a Christian home and was a member of the Church of Christ where she taught Primary Sunday School, picking up the children on her way to church. Due to declining health, Viola moved to Cheyenne, Oklahoma in 1978 and lived there until her health forced her to enter the nursing home on December 23, 1994. Viola quietly slipped from her earthly home to her heavenly home with her family around her on Sunday afternoon on November 25, 2007 at the age of 91 years, 6 months and 27 days. Viola was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 1 brother and 3 sisters. She was also preceded by her son, Billy Eugene (Gene) White, 2 grandchildren, Jerry Dayton and Misty White and 2 great grandsons, Holden Michael White and Hugh Michael Jones. She is survived by her sons, Virgel White and wife, Romona, of Berlin, Oklahoma, and Curtis White and wife, Linda, of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; a daughter-in-law, Mary White of Pampa, Texas; 1 sister- in-law, Esther Leitner of Burkburnett, Texas; 8 grandchildren, 15 great grandchildren, numberous nieces, nephews and her church family and friends. The family request that memorial donation be made to the Westview Boys Home, Hollis, Oklahoma. Services were held Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at Cheyenne Church of Christ with Cecil Burch officiating. Interment will follow at the Fairview Cemetery, Durham, Oklahoma. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service. Cheyenne Star, Cheyenne, OK 29-Nov-2007 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html