White - Charles Wesley
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review, September 16, 1968
LINDEN – Charles Wesley White, 69, retired rural mail carrier and life resident of this community, died at 12:15 p.m. Sunday in Home Hospital at Lafayette, where he had been a patient 13 days. He had been ill six weeks. Mr. White was a mail carrier 45 years. He was a member of Linden-Kirkpatrick United Methodist Church, Linden Masonic Lodge 679, World War I SAT&C, National Rural Letter Carriers Association and Association of Retired Civil Employes. He was a 1916 graduate of Linden High School and in 1917 of Central Business College. Mr. White was a son of Joseph W. and Sarah M. Gwin White and was born Dec. 10, 1898. He was married Oct. 6, 1925 to Ruth Patton. Surviving are his wife; three sons and daughters-in-law, Max E. and Katherine White of Crawfordsville, Don E. and Ruth G. White of Covington and Charles W. and Nancy J. White Jr. of Linden; nine grandchildren; a sister, Mrs. Earl L. Warren, of New Richmond; a brother, George L. White of Linden, and nieces and nephews. Preceding him in death were three sisters, a brother and a grandchild. Funeral services are set at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Helms Funeral Home with Rev. Dale M. Wilson the minister and burial in Linden Cemetery. Friends may call at the funeral home after 3 p.m. Tuesday. – jlr