Helen L. White

Helen L. White, of Ponca, passed away on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 at the Elms Health Care Center in Ponca. Funeral services were held Monday, January 28, 2008 at 10:00 A.M. at the Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca. Pastor Terry Kenitz of Trinity Lutheran Church in Martinsburg, Nebraska is officiating. Burial was in the Ponca City Cemetery in Ponca. Visitation was from 2:00 P.M. to 6:00 P.M. with the family present on Sunday, January 27, 2008 at the Mohr Funeral Home in Ponca.Helen was born to Bill and Mary (Burns) Beller in rural Ponca on October 24, 1906. She married James A. Bauman in 1925. The couple had two sons and three daughters. James died on January 09, 1945. Two years later Helen married Huey White, who passed away four years later. Helen began working for the Elms Health Care Center in 1952 and continued until she retired, at the age of 70. Helen lived at Pioneer Spuare Apartments in Ponca for 20 years, before moving to the Elms.Survivors include one son, James and his wife Nancy Bauman of Redding, California; three sons-in-law, John Schultz of Cypress, California, Joe McArdle of Ponca, Nebraska, and Jim Wright of Seattle, Washington; 9 grandchildren, many great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.Helen was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, James Bauman and Huey White; one son, Larry Bauman and three daughters, Mary Lou Schultz, Carol McArdle and Sandra Wright.