Harvey Edward White
Funeral services for Harvey Edward White, 84, Custer County businessman, farmer and rancher, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Chapel Hill Methodist Church east of Clinton, officiated by Chaplain Dan Day.
White died Wednesday, March 11, 2015, in the United Methodist Health Care Center in Clinton. He was born May 27,1930 in Carson, the son of Robert Edward White and Florence Serena (Poulson) White.
Raised in eastern Oklahoma, he attended school in Dustin until moving to Hammon in the 1940’s. As a teenager, he worked on Tommy Elliott’s farm and discovered his musical ability by picking up a guitar. He graduated from Hammon High School in 1950, where he met his future wife.
After graduation, he moved to Clinton and worked for the Farm Service Agency. He married Pauline Sketchley in 1953.
They made their lifelong home in Clinton. In the late 1950’s he began a country western band along with his brother, Roy, and a group of friends.
They played numerous dances and events all over the area for many years to come, and he became known for his fiddle playing. He entertained at the Clinton Veterans Center and local nursing homes up until 2007.
He started a banking and insurance career with Clint Howenstine in the Custer County State Bank in 1961. In the early 1970’s, he continued working in insurance and branched out into oil and gas leasing and farm loans. He opened his own agency in which he worked until his death.
He began expanding his farming and ranching operation in the Hammon and Butler area with his son-in-law and daughter managing daily operations.
White was a member of the Hammon Methodist Church.
Preceding him in death were his parents; his wife, Pauline; a son-in-law, Terry Henry; brothers, Edwin (as an infant), Marvin, Melvin, James and Roy; and sisters, Pauline Martinez and Lucille Cane.
He is survived by a daughter, Connie Henry, of Hammon; his fiancée, Dorothy Kincaid, of Clinton; a brother, Milford White, and his wife, Doris, of Alva; a sister-in-law, Jaunita White, of Clinton; three granddaughters, Misty Baker, and her husband, Jay, of Clinton, Crystal West and her husband, Jevon, of Hammon, and Emily Coppock, and her husband, Cody, of Mustang; six great-grandchildren, Sketchley Baker, Charley Baker, Malley Baker, Henley West, Baylor West and Riley Coppock.