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1922 - 2016 (94 years)| Name | Mary Greenleaf WHITE [3] | |
| Birth | 27 Feb 1922 | Cleveland, Ohio  [3] |
| Gender | Female | |
| HIST | MARY W. ANDERSON Posted Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:00 am Mary Greenleaf White Anderson, 94, of Stateburg, died on June 20, 2016, at home after a brief illness. Born on Feb. 27, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Walter Charles White and Mary Virginia Saunders White, she was the second of seven children born to this couple. She grew up at Circle W Farms in Gates Mills, just outside of Cleveland. She was known to her family as "Mudge" from her sister Ann trying to pronounce "Mary G" as a small child. Her father was president of the White Motor Co. Her mother owned the Borough House in Stateburg, and there were yearly visits to family in South Carolina. She attended Laurel School for Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio, from 1928 to 1939, graduating cum laude. She attended Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1939 to 1943. She achieved Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. As an art history major, she had planned to study in Italy her junior year but World War II prevented it. After graduation, she joined the Navy in the fall of 1943. During September and October, she attended Midshipman School at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. During November and December 1943, she then attended U.S. Naval Communications School at Mt. Holyoke, South Hadley, Massachusetts. In January 1944, commissioned as an ensign (W-VS) U.S. Navy Reserves, she was attached to the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) stationed at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. This was also the Navy Air Station where captured airplanes were flown in contest with American ones. The first jet was flown there along with Japanese and German planes. She was one of the Communications Watch Officers (CWO) and worked odd shifts in one of the hangars there. Summer 1946, she was demobilized as a lieutenant (jg) and moved back to Gates Mills. On June 19, 1948, she married U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Kerfoot Anderson. As a Navy wife, she moved with her husband to the various duty stations: New York City, New York; Newport News, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Mare Island, California; Mine Defense Lab in Panama City, Florida; and back to Washington, D.C., where her husband, then a captain in the Navy, retired in 1962. Capt. Anderson was an engineer and shipbuilder and was in charge at MI of the first nuclear sub and was the assistant director at BUShips when he retired. They stayed in Washington, D.C., until 1974 when they moved to Stateburg. During her time in D.C., she volunteered at Anderson House (headquarters and museum for the Society of the Cincinnati); taught Sunday school; made costumes for school and church programs; and rang doorbells for various charitable organizations. She also studied at the Smithsonian Institute and with a private tutor, studying decorative arts, antiques and architecture. She had traveled frequently to Europe as a child with her mother and older sister, Ann. She continued to travel with her husband and children. She spoke French, Italian and Spanish. In South Carolina, she continued her volunteer activities with the Sumter County Museum and with the many tours given through her family home. She attended the Church of the Holy Cross and was a member of the Altar Guild and choir. She was also a member of the Stateburg Musical and Literary Society. She had a lifelong passion for family history, travel, books, and crossword puzzles. She is survived by her four children, Richard Kerfoot Anderson Jr. and his wife, Betty, William Saunders Anderson and his wife, Ilene, Walter Greenleaf Anderson and his wife, Susan, and Mary Mackenzie Anderson Sholtz and her husband, David; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, retired U.S. Navy Capt. Richard Kerfoot Anderson, Dec. 17, 1984; and her siblings, Ann Heron White Stockton, Walter Charles White Jr., Virginia Harrison White, Walter Harrison White, Martha Welles White and Katherine Coryton White; and niece, Sarah Stockton Selby. Services to be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, by Father Michael Ridgill. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday at Bullock Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Church of the Holy Cross in her memory. You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family's guest book. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements. [1] | |
| HIST | MARY W. ANDERSON Posted Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:00 am Mary Greenleaf White Anderson, 94, of Stateburg, died on June 20, 2016, at home after a brief illness. Born on Feb. 27, 1922, in Cleveland, Ohio, to Walter Charles White and Mary Virginia Saunders White, she was the second of seven children born to this couple. She grew up at Circle W Farms in Gates Mills, just outside of Cleveland. She was known to her family as "Mudge" from her sister Ann trying to pronounce "Mary G" as a small child. Her father was president of the White Motor Co. Her mother owned the Borough House in Stateburg, and there were yearly visits to family in South Carolina. She attended Laurel School for Girls in Shaker Heights, Ohio, from 1928 to 1939, graduating cum laude. She attended Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, New York, from 1939 to 1943. She achieved Phi Beta Kappa her junior year. As an art history major, she had planned to study in Italy her junior year but World War II prevented it. After graduation, she joined the Navy in the fall of 1943. During September and October, she attended Midshipman School at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. During November and December 1943, she then attended U.S. Naval Communications School at Mt. Holyoke, South Hadley, Massachusetts. In January 1944, commissioned as an ensign (W-VS) U.S. Navy Reserves, she was attached to the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) stationed at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. This was also the Navy Air Station where captured airplanes were flown in contest with American ones. The first jet was flown there along with Japanese and German planes. She was one of the Communications Watch Officers (CWO) and worked odd shifts in one of the hangars there. Summer 1946, she was demobilized as a lieutenant (jg) and moved back to Gates Mills. On June 19, 1948, she married U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Kerfoot Anderson. As a Navy wife, she moved with her husband to the various duty stations: New York City, New York; Newport News, Virginia; Washington, D.C.; Mare Island, California; Mine Defense Lab in Panama City, Florida; and back to Washington, D.C., where her husband, then a captain in the Navy, retired in 1962. Capt. Anderson was an engineer and shipbuilder and was in charge at MI of the first nuclear sub and was the assistant director at BUShips when he retired. They stayed in Washington, D.C., until 1974 when they moved to Stateburg. During her time in D.C., she volunteered at Anderson House (headquarters and museum for the Society of the Cincinnati); taught Sunday school; made costumes for school and church programs; and rang doorbells for various charitable organizations. She also studied at the Smithsonian Institute and with a private tutor, studying decorative arts, antiques and architecture. She had traveled frequently to Europe as a child with her mother and older sister, Ann. She continued to travel with her husband and children. She spoke French, Italian and Spanish. In South Carolina, she continued her volunteer activities with the Sumter County Museum and with the many tours given through her family home. She attended the Church of the Holy Cross and was a member of the Altar Guild and choir. She was also a member of the Stateburg Musical and Literary Society. She had a lifelong passion for family history, travel, books, and crossword puzzles. She is survived by her four children, Richard Kerfoot Anderson Jr. and his wife, Betty, William Saunders Anderson and his wife, Ilene, Walter Greenleaf Anderson and his wife, Susan, and Mary Mackenzie Anderson Sholtz and her husband, David; 15 grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren. She was predeceased by her husband, retired U.S. Navy Capt. Richard Kerfoot Anderson, Dec. 17, 1984; and her siblings, Ann Heron White Stockton, Walter Charles White Jr., Virginia Harrison White, Walter Harrison White, Martha Welles White and Katherine Coryton White; and niece, Sarah Stockton Selby. Services to be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday at the Church of the Holy Cross, Stateburg, by Father Michael Ridgill. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. on Friday at Bullock Funeral Home. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to the Church of the Holy Cross in her memory. You may go to www.bullockfuneralhome.com and sign the family's guest book. The family has chosen Bullock Funeral Home for the arrangements. | |
| MILI | After graduation, she joined the Navy in the fall of 1943. During September and October, she attended Midshipman School at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. During November and December 1943, she then attended U.S. Naval Communications School at Mt. Holyoke, South Hadley, Massachusetts. In January 1944, commissioned as an ensign (W-VS) U.S. Navy Reserves, she was attached to the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) stationed at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. This was also the Navy Air Station where captured airplanes were flown in contest with American ones. The first jet was flown there along with Japanese and German planes. She was one of the Communications Watch Officers (CWO) and worked odd shifts in one of the hangars there. Summer 1946, she was demobilized as a lieutenant (jg) and moved back to Gates Mills. On June 19, 1948, she married U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Kerfoot Anderson. [1] | |
| MILI | After graduation, she joined the Navy in the fall of 1943. During September and October, she attended Midshipman School at Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts. During November and December 1943, she then attended U.S. Naval Communications School at Mt. Holyoke, South Hadley, Massachusetts. In January 1944, commissioned as an ensign (W-VS) U.S. Navy Reserves, she was attached to the Naval Air Transport Service (NATS) stationed at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. This was also the Navy Air Station where captured airplanes were flown in contest with American ones. The first jet was flown there along with Japanese and German planes. She was one of the Communications Watch Officers (CWO) and worked odd shifts in one of the hangars there. Summer 1946, she was demobilized as a lieutenant (jg) and moved back to Gates Mills. On June 19, 1948, she married U.S. Navy Cmdr. Richard Kerfoot Anderson. | |
| _UID | 0130D579D32447AA957568F4DA106F224882 | |
| _UID | 0130D579D32447AA957568F4DA106F224882 | |
| Death | 20 Jun 2016 | at home, (Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina) |
| Burial | 25 Jun 2016 | The Church of the Holy Cross Churchyard Cemetery, Stateburg, Sumter County, South Carolina [1] |
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| Person ID | I268259 | Singleton and Related Families |
| Last Modified | 23 Jun 2017 | |
| Father | Walter Charles WHITE, Sr., b. 8 Sep 1876, Cleveland, Ohio d. 29 Sep 1929 (Age 53 years) | |
| Mother | Mary Virginia SANDERS, b. 19 Dec 1889, Sumter County, South Carolina | |
| Marriage | 25 Sep 1919 | Hill Crest Plantation [3] |
| _UID | 0B5B9BE6CEDD4389933877ED57BB22A465C3 | |
| _UID | 0B5B9BE6CEDD4389933877ED57BB22A465C3 | |
| Family ID | F15980 | Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family | U.S. Navy Captain Richard Kerfoot ANDERSON, Sr. d. 17 Dec 1984 | |||||||||
| Marriage | 19 Jun 1948 [1] | |||||||||
| _UID | BCA59D3CDED4479CB5722EFDC30211F3EAC5 | |||||||||
| _UID | BCA59D3CDED4479CB5722EFDC30211F3EAC5 | |||||||||
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| Family ID | F180572 | Group Sheet | Family Chart | ||||||||
| Last Modified | 24 Jun 2016 | |||||||||
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