Joanne White

Mary Joanne Weir White was born on March 23, 1936 in Boone, Iowa to Ray and Emma (Johnson) Weir. She passed away on May 28 at the age of 86. 

Joanne attended schools in Sandwich, Illinois and Osceola, Iowa and graduated from Osceola High School in 1954. She was active in choir, band and theater throughout high school and had many fond memories of play rehearsals and marching during halftime of OHS football games.

Joanne graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa in 1958 with an elementary education degree. It was at Simpson that she met her future husband, Pat White. They attended many sorority and fraternity functions and they especially loved to dance. Her first teaching position was in Keokuk, Iowa while Pat was stationed at Fort Holabird, Maryland from 1958-1960. They were married in Grinnell, Iowa on June 25, 1961. They then moved to Clinton, Iowa where Pat was an assistant manager at JC Penney’s.

Future moves took them to St. Louis, Missouri, Kenosha and Neenah, Wisconsin, Anaconda, Montana, and Lynden. Joanne was an active member of the Lynden United Methodist Church, P.E.O. and the Lynden Garden Club. 

Joanne accompanied Pat to many Lions Club conventions in the U.S. and around the world during his tenure as the executive secretary of Multiple District 19.

Joanne was preceded in death by her parents, husband Pat and brother Jim. She is survived by her daughter Darcy (Jerry) Davis of Vancouver, WA, son Cory (Shannon) of Lynden, grandchildren Connor White, Lucy White and Claire Davis, sister-in-law Shirley Weir and nephews Bruce Weir and Keith Weir. 

Joanne will be interred with her husband in the Willamette National Cemetery in Portland, OR.