Class of 1959
Logansport High School
Logansport, Indiana

John H White Jr.
October 3, 1941 - September 12, 2004

     Private family services for John H. White Jr., 62, of Logansport, will be held at a later date.  A military memorial will be conducted at Mt. Hope Cemetery Sunday, October 3 at 2:00PM.
     He died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, in Logansport Memorial Hospital, after a long illness.
     Born Oct. 3, 1941, in Logansport, he was the son of John Herman Sr. and Alice Rebecca Everman White Davidson English. Each of Mr. White's two marriages ended in divorce. The first was to Jane Kathrens, Logansport, and the second to Elizabeth Conley White, Kokomo.
     Mr. White was a veteran of the U.S. Air Force, having served in Vietnam.
     Most everyone at LHS remembers John's easy smile and great sense of humor, his loyal and generous nature.
     Both his amateur and professional successes in golf are well known. In 1959, Mr. White's senior year at Logansport High School, his golf team won the North Central Conference, and he was awarded LHS's first golf letter jacket. Soon after, he won the Dykeman Park City Tournament and in 1992, as the pro member of the team, he won the Logansport Country Club Invitational.
     For several years, Mr. White was the golf professional at Par Three and the Logansport Country Club.
     He also was a member of the American Legion Post #3790 and the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #60.
     He also enjoyed playing poker with friends.
     Surviving are two daughters, Carrie Werich DeCraene, Mishawaka, and Nicole Elizabeth White, Indianapolis; one grandson, Nathaniel John DeCraene; one sister, Patricia White Adair Watson, New York, N.Y.; one brother, Robert Joe White and his wife, Kathy, Attica; three nieces and two nephews; two aunts, Esther White Austin, Lutz, Fla., and Margaret White Haskell, Idaville.
     His parents and his youngest brother, Byron "Buzz" Davidson, preceded in death.
     He will be honored with a veteran's monument in Mount Hope Cemetery. (9-14-04)