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::Elmhurst Cemetery--Guymon OK

Amarillo Globe News 24 Dec 1998

Ralph William White

GUYMON, Okla. - Ralph William White, 86, died Sunday, Dec. 27, 1998.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Presbyterian Church of Guymon 
with the Rev. Jim Jacobson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in 
Elmhurst Cemetery by Henson-Novak Funeral Directors of Guymon.

Mr. White was born in Grand Junction, Colo., and lived in Lake City, 
Colo., Spingerville, Colo., Holcomb, Kan., Pond Creek and Phoenix before 
moving to Guymon. He graduated from high school in Enid and attended 
Panhandle State A&M College.

Mr. White taught at the Easterwood Country School and third grade in 
Guymon. He received his bachelors degree in 1938. He later taught 
elementary school in Meeker, Colo.

Mr. White served in the Army from 1942 until 1947. He received his 
lieutenant bar in 1943 and was stationed in the motor pool in Ohau, 
Hawaii.

Mr. White returned to Meeker to teach, then moved to Guymon to farm. For 
more than 20 years, he was coordinator for a trade and industry class and 
elementary teacher. He retired as a teacher in 1973 and became a janitor 
at Salyer School.

In 1989, Mr. White and his wife moved to Buena Vista, Colo.

Mr. White was an active member of First Baptist Church, Sunday School 
activities, choir and Bethlehem Market Place. He was a member of a bridge 
club, Guymon Lion's Club and one-time president of Mr. and Mrs. Garden 
Club. In the 1930s, he coached the junior high girls' basketball team.

Mr. White collected Indian artifacts and wrote articles about them. He was 
awarded the Golden Trowel Award for amateur archaeology in 1988 for his 
discoveries.

He married Charline Hyer of Woodward, Okla., at the end of World War II.

Survivors include his wife; two children, Kenny White of Houston and Lucy 
Proctor of Midland, Texas; seven grandchildren; and seven great-
grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to a Ralph White memorial for the First 
Presbyterian Church which will be accepted at the church or Henson-Novak 
Funeral Home, Box 1306, Guymon, OK 73942.
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