White, Sadie Byler (1885-1962)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 1962 Jun 7 p. 8

Birth date: 1885 Sep 28

text of obituary:

MRS. ELMER J. WHITE

Funeral services were held for Mrs. Sadie (Byler) White, 76, Wichita, Kansas, in Cedar Chapel Methodist Church on May 25, 1962. Rev. Henry L. Dorsey, pastor, officiated.

Mrs. White passed away May 21 at her home. She was born Sept. 28, 1885, in Champaign County, Ohio. She came to Harvey County with her parents in 1887. She was married to Elmer J. White Dec. 23, 1906.

Mrs. White resided on a farm northeast of Newton, Kan., 34 years before moving to Wichita in 1940. She was a charter member of Cedar Chapel Methodist Church.

Survivors include her husband; six sons, Warren B. and wife Lorraine, Wichita; Allen A. and wife Edna, Peabody; Clement E. and wife Margaret, Dale E. and wife Wilma, both of Newton; Calvin R. and wife Joan, Endwell, N. Y., and James L., Caracas, Venezuela; five daughters, Gladys, Mrs. George Zook, Sedgwick; Mary, Mrs. Harry Wenger, Wellman, Iowa; Neva, Kabul, Afghanistan; Elsie, Lebanon, Ore.; Erna, Mrs. Melvin Jantz, McPherson; 31 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Burial was made in the Pennsylvania Mennonite Cemetery, Zimmerdale, Kan.