James Dale White ’52

James Dale White ’52, who served 46 years in the ministry, passed away on August 8, 2015, in Newburg, West Virginia. His wife, the Rev. Virginia Mae Richards Condrey White, preceded him in death on March 23, 2014. Born to missionary parents, James attended Woodstock School in the Himalayan Mountains of north India, graduating in 1947. He entered Dartmouth with the class of 1952, but transferred and earned his degree in history from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and completed his M. Div. from Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, in 1958. James pastored churches in the United States and several international venues through 1977. James was appointed chief of chaplain services to Louis A. Johnson VA Medical Center in May of 1978, retiring in October of 1997. James retired from the United Methodist Church on June 17, 1998. Surviving family is not known.


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