The Eagle-Cathlamet, Wahkiakum, WA-March 18, 1943

Mrs. Nellie White Passes at Kelso.

  Mrs. Nellie Warren White who passed away Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Hazel Stuart, of 
Kelso, was well known in this community where she resided for many years.
  Mrs. White was born in Chelsea, Massachusetts, July 17, 1858, and came to Portland, Oregon, with her 
two brothers and her parents in 1865.  She was educated in the schools of that city, married Clarence 
White, son of a prominent pioneer lawyer and judge.  In 1891 Mrs. White and her children came to this 
community to make her home and for several years lived in the house that had once been the James Birnie 
home and it became again the center of hospitality and social life.  Mrs. White was very popular with all 
the young people and her home was always open to them.  She assisted in many of the entertainments and 
concerts of the community.
  In 1919 she moved with her daughter’s family to Kelso where she had made her home continuously ever 
since.
  Possessed of a very charming, lovely personality, she had a host of friends.  She was the twin sister of 
Charles Warren and one of the oldest twins in the Northwest.
  Besides her brother she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Hazel Stuart, two sons, Clarence of California and 
Roy of Alaska, seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.
  Funeral services were held in Kelso Monday and interment was in Kelso.


Carrie “Nellie” (Warren) White
Cowlitz View Memorial Cemetery-Kelso, WA
17 July 1858-12 March 1943
(As transcribed by the Wahkiakum County Historical Society 2006 from original newspaper collection.)