Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home for Oscar A. White, 80, who died Saturday in the Peterson Hospital. Interment was in the Center Point Cemetery and Rev. B.E. Breihan, minister of the First Methodist Church officiated.
Mr. White died of burns received when his robe caught fire from a gas heater, in his room a the Faust Hotel in Comfort. He was a native of Lamar County and moved to Center Point in 1908. He was a retired carpenter and had moved to Kerrville about nine years ago to be the carpenter for the state sanatorium. After his retirement, he moved to Comfort.
He is survived by three sons, E. S. White of Napa, California; Ulrich White of San Antonio and Ralph White of Center Point; and one daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCoy of San Antonio; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren and one brother Forrest Cox of Floresville.
Kerrville Times
05 February 1953
Mr. White died of burns received when his robe caught fire from a gas heater, in his room a the Faust Hotel in Comfort. He was a native of Lamar County and moved to Center Point in 1908. He was a retired carpenter and had moved to Kerrville about nine years ago to be the carpenter for the state sanatorium. After his retirement, he moved to Comfort.
He is survived by three sons, E. S. White of Napa, California; Ulrich White of San Antonio and Ralph White of Center Point; and one daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCoy of San Antonio; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren and one brother Forrest Cox of Floresville.
Kerrville Times
05 February 1953
Funeral services were held Monday afternoon from the chapel of the Smith Funeral Home for Oscar A. White, 80, who died Saturday in the Peterson Hospital. Interment was in the Center Point Cemetery and Rev. B.E. Breihan, minister of the First Methodist Church officiated.
Mr. White died of burns received when his robe caught fire from a gas heater, in his room a the Faust Hotel in Comfort. He was a native of Lamar County and moved to Center Point in 1908. He was a retired carpenter and had moved to Kerrville about nine years ago to be the carpenter for the state sanatorium. After his retirement, he moved to Comfort.
He is survived by three sons, E. S. White of Napa, California; Ulrich White of San Antonio and Ralph White of Center Point; and one daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCoy of San Antonio; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren and one brother Forrest Cox of Floresville.
Kerrville Times
05 February 1953
Mr. White died of burns received when his robe caught fire from a gas heater, in his room a the Faust Hotel in Comfort. He was a native of Lamar County and moved to Center Point in 1908. He was a retired carpenter and had moved to Kerrville about nine years ago to be the carpenter for the state sanatorium. After his retirement, he moved to Comfort.
He is survived by three sons, E. S. White of Napa, California; Ulrich White of San Antonio and Ralph White of Center Point; and one daughter, Mrs. Ruth McCoy of San Antonio; four grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren and one brother Forrest Cox of Floresville.
Kerrville Times
05 February 1953
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White
Father
Oscar
1872 - 1953
Mother
Alice
1877 - 1913
