1916-2004

LEWISTON – Helen Mae White, 87, of Carthage, died early Friday evening, Jan. 16, at the Central Maine Medical Center in Lewiston.

She was born July 24, 1916, in Anson, a daughter of Benjamin and Ida Mae (Beene) Worster. She attended schools in Madison, Dead River and Andover as her father worked in the woods and the family moved to where he was lumbering.

On Mar. 18, 1934, she married Elijah White and they made their home in Carthage.

Mrs. White worked for a short time at Stowell-McGregor in Dixfield but her passion in life was being a homemaker to her husband and children.

She was a mother and grandmother to many people in the area extending beyond her own family. She was an avid bingo player, travelling all over the state seeking places to play. Her husband, sons, and grandsons have always been involved in stock car racing and she loved to see them race at Oxford Plains Speedway. She belonged to the Mother’s Club in Carthage and the Historical Society.

She is survived by: her husband of nearly 70 years; three sons, Elijah Jr. and his wife, Beverly, of Dixfield, Wayne and his wife, Emmy, of Carthage, and Ronald of Carthage; four daughters, Marie Conant of Augusta, Gloria Ellis and her husband, Ronald Sr. of Carthage, Meredith Robbins and her husband, Randy, of Dixfield, and Doreen Smith and her husband, Dean, of Collegedale, Tenn.; a brother, Edgar Worster of Easton, Mass.; 27 grandchildren, many great and great-great grandchildren.

She was predeceased by a brother Everett Worster and two sisters Geneva Keene and Marguerite O’Sullivan.