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Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
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Source for: Eunice Corilla White, 1 APR 1916 - 12 APR 1996
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Birth source: Place: S1509Birth source: S58Page: 547-30-6499
Date: NOV 2011
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Date: NOV 2011
Death source: S73Page: Inglewood, California
Date: NOV 2014
Text: Eunice Corilla White was the third of six children born to Joseph Parley White & Grace Marguerite Egbert. She was born April 1, 1916 in Grace, Bannock (now Caribou County), Idaho. She was always proud of her April first birthday and later looked forward to birthday pranks from her son George. Within miles of Grace there are several extinct volcanoes and lava domes which contributed to the dark, nitrogen rich volcanic soil of the area. This soil type was ideal for farming, particularly potatoes and grain. Corilla's early years were spent in little towns like this or Buhl, Idaho, a much larger city of about 2000 people located on the old Oregon Trail in the western half of Twin Falls County.
In those lean days, nothing went to waste. One day a pig had to be slaughtered. Corilla's father Parley took the bladder out and they washed it clean. He took a piece of straw and after blowing the bladder up, tied it with string; this was Corilla's first balloon. She had her first real balloon later when the circus came to town.
Once Corilla was with a friend named Jack Rabill who had been able to catch a sturgeon that had gotten into their irrigation ditch. While being entertained by the fish, Parley came and said they needed the meat and killed it. Although objecting at the time, Corilla's later analysis was, "it was good eating." One different thing she ate growing up was wheat that was softened on the stove. When ready, you simply added some milk and sugar to make it "so good." Sometimes the things that were good surprised her, like the time she ate eel, and declared it, "as good as chicken."
They didn't have store bought paper dolls in those days, so they would cut up the Sears catalog and make their own. Corilla especially liked them because she said she wasn't very athletic. She also had animals growing up. The earliest she recalls were two chickens named Mutt and Jeff, a dog Rover, and a lamb her sister Virginia found.
The family moved to Latuda, Utah, a coal-mining town where her father ended up working as a long-time coal miner. It is here she spent her school years. When Corilla was 10 years old, she was baptized a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She was a talented little girl and sometimes sang in church with friends; even singing at numerous funerals. However, when she was 13, the funeral happened to be for a small baby who had died. The experience impacted her so much that she declined singing at them any longer.
One of Corilla's talents was being able to rattle off the alphabet backwards, and fast. She played the piano by ear and never would learn to play by reading notes. However, she could play anything if you would hum it to her. She would play it back like she had known that song all the time.
During high school, Corilla cleaned a Mrs. Shults home and performed chores not done as much today like waxing the floors and ironing. She saved her money so she could become a licensed cosmetologist and before long she left for Quish Beauty School & Parlor in Salt Lake City, Utah. She did not know anybody in the area, so she spent several nights at the famous Beehive House (now a museum of sorts) as their guest.
After school she returned home to Latuda where she first met George Davies, an older boy who was visiting from California. They had lunch together one day and agreed that who ever had the most money with them would pay the bill; Corilla paid. George returned home to Southern California where he was employed and they wrote letters back and forth until he did the obvious--he sent her seven dollars so she could come out to California to be married. Of course, George did write to ask her father Parley for her hand, and so on 14 Nov 1934, Bishop Peacock performed their civil marriage in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California.
George & Corilla desired to have a family together. Just a year after they wed, they welcomed their first daughter Marcia Lee on 8 Sep 1935 after a 32 hour ordeal (though Corilla later said Marcia was worth it.) Three years later on 12 Feb 1938, she had a baby boy who would be his father's namesake. For fourteen years they raised their children on Gramercy Place in southwest Los Angeles, California. Corilla helped support the family for twenty years in the retail food industry, the same occupation as her husband.
About six years later young George, whom they called Jud, needed an operation on the only eye he had sight in. The White & Davies families came together and soon fifty cents here and a dollar there was enough for Corilla and young George's train tickets to Rochester, Minnesota. The trains were packed with service men because of the war and Corilla was expecting their last baby at the same time. She was able to get very little rest, so the whole ordeal was even more exhausting. However, with determination she got George to the doctors at the Mayo Clinic. A successful surgery was performed and the sight in George's eye was saved. Soon after that, along came their third child, Nancy Jeanne, delivered quickly on 14 Oct 1944.
Corilla had many interests. She made ceramic napkin holders, vegetable and relish dishes, and water pitchers. She loved having her children George and Marcia sell them door-to-door. Corilla sewed as a teen and was an excellent seamstress, making many of Marcia's and Nancy's clothes. She also made and sold young girls' outfits for a children's shop. She made pillow cases out of flour sacks from Helm's Bakery, cross-stitching them from iron-on patterns.
Gardening was her favorite pastime, as those who visited her home could attest. She loved birds along with her dahlias, Marguerite daisies, chrysanthemums, gladiolus, fuchsias, roses, and calla lilies; she also arranged flowers. Later she raised several litters of miniature poodles.
She had many opportunities to share her talents in the women's church Relief Society making puppets and quilts and helping with many successful bazaars. She even made dolls of the prophet and biblical figures to raise funds for worthy causes and served as a counselor and secretary in the organization.
Besides all this though, Corilla faced many challenges, the Depression, World War II, and later health concerns. The sacrifices she faced included low wages and shortages of food and other essentials that required ration stamps.
In the 50's, she was influential with the families genealogy. She and her husband took a 20-week genealogical course at the Huntington Park Stake which culminated in the family being sealed in the Mesa, Arizona temple on 31 Oct 1953. In recent years descendants have especially appreciated the work she put into writing letters and gathering records.
In 1957 George & Corilla purchased a new home on Pico Vista Boulevard in Downey, Los Angeles, California. This is where her children and grandchildren have many memories of the holidays and large family dinners. There might be a massive St. Patrick's Day meal of corned beef and cabbage with folks retiring to the back lawn for a game of croquet. When cooking large meals was more difficult, there still was good ole' Kentucky Fried Chicken standing by.
All could see the love Corilla & George had for one another through thick or thin. They loved their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren and always loved to hear another was on the way. Corilla's most important legacy, of course, is the three children, fifteen grandchildren and even more great-grandchildren she leaves. They are our parents, spouses, children, and grandchildren, the most precious things we have, and we shall always be indebted to her for those.
Corilla is remembered listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir as she would lie in bed and meditate and think of being with her husband again some day. She believed that families are together forever; we believe she was right.