May Lillian (Billings) White
Obituaries
Eagle Valley Enterprise page 1 - July 18, 1913
Among a people as closely allied as the Eagle community the heavy hand of death falls with pain to all. Into our midst Tuesday came the shock and sadness of the passage of Mrs. May Lillian White, wife of B.M. White, with a touch of sorrow that was almost individual.
Monday morning Mrs. and Mrs. White with several other people of Eagle went as far as State Bridge to meet the party of Indiana autoists and accompany them into town. On the return trip just on this side of Artego near Livingston's ranch as Mr. White was making one of the sharp curves in the way, the machine became unmanagable and shot over the embankment. In the car was Mr. and Mrs. White and Mrs. H.L. Torrey,. When he saw the machine was to precipitated over the bank Mr. White leaped upon the running board and made every effort to pull the ladies from the vehicle. His efforts were in vain and the large car perched a second upon the edge of the decline then toppled over with Mrs. Torrey and Mrs. White standing and rolled down the steep hill, entirely over both ladies.
Mrs. Torrey sustained several bruises and a heavy nervous shock that confined her to her bed since. For two days her life was dispared of but she is now convalescing.
Mrs. White was picked up, conscious but severely injured. At first it was thought by her physicians that her injuries were not fatal and hope was raised that she would soon be up. But Tuesday morning her condition became worse and she could not be revived from the second sinking spell, dying at 10:30 a.m.
A short service was held at the White home Wednesday evening at six-thirty where Rev. H.L. Giover spoke a few appropriate words to the friends gathered in token of their tenderest and high regard for Mrs. White. At nine o'clock in a mute gathering of almost every man and woman in Eagle, Mrs. White's body was placed upon No. 1, stopped by special request to be shipped to Salt Lake City for interment Thursday evening.
Mrs. May Lillian Billings White was born at Salt Lake City, Utah, May 6, 1880 where nine years ago she married Mr. B.M. White. They moved to Eagle, Colo. two years later and have made this place their home since. Mrs. White was the mother of two children, Emma, three and Morton six years of age.
It is not necessary granting it were possible for us to do so, to give a delineation of Mrs. White's high social and amiacable standing in our midst. The pall of gloom that spread itself over the town at the word of her death, the open hearted extension of sympathy and help to the bereaved family and the hushed group of friends at the station Wednesday night to bid a tearful and silent farewell to the moral remains of their friend and close associate, speak more eloquently that words what place Mrs. White filled in this community. The place filled by a loving friend and a close thoughtful neighbor, is empty and the sorrow and mourning of a whole town and community bear witness that her memory is sacred to the people of Eagle.
To the sorrowing husband and family a few spoken words or the pressure of the sympathetic hand cannot assuage the great feeling of loss; yet in unison with the wave of feeling of all who knew Mrs. White the editor of the Enterprise join in condolence and fraternal expressions of sorrow.
