WHITE, Joyce A.

The Daily Courier, Prescott, Arizona Saturday, April 09, 2011 Joyce A. White, 83, a resident of Tyrone, noted author and widow of Bob L. White, deceased, passed away at her home on Wednesday, March 16, 2011. She is survived by her only child, Michael E. White of Chino Valley, Ariz.; her two grandchildren, Michael Todd White and Tara Lea Koestor; and four great-grandchildren, Tayleen and Auston White and Amanda and Huston Koestor. She is a descendent of two pioneer families: the Fairbanks, who gave us the Fairbanks Scales and lent their name to Fairbanks, Alaska as well as Fairbanks, Ariz., and produced the actor Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and a vice president of the United States, Charles Warren Fairbanks who served from 1905 to 1908 and as a Senator from Indiana from 1897 to 1905. She was a direct descendent of Brigham Young, the second president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1844). Joyce White wrote a weekly column for the Silver City Sun-News and has two published books on Amazon.com, "Burro Creek Canyon" and "Mountain Echoes." Her estate plans to publish the other two books in this series, "Hozoni" and "Moving On," in the near future. She was born on Sept. 20, 1927, and was a country person all her life, having lived on a dairy farm in Michigan, a poultry ranch in southern California, a stock farm in Missouri, and two cattle ranches in Arizona. But of all the country settings she has known, it is the remote ranch life she enjoyed the most. In 1956, she went to live in Burro Creek Canyon in northwest Arizona. The ranch had been a pack mule outfit, had no electricity, telephone or mail delivery and was located 72 miles from town. That isolated cow outfit, with its colorful history, rekindled her earlier interest in writing, and in 1969, The Western Horseman accepted her first story. Since then her researched articles and ranch reflections have appeared in that magazine; also in American Horseman, Outdoor Arizona, Bottles and Relics, and in two newspapers, The Traveler, and Silver City Sun-News, where her "Ranch Echoes" column appeared on Sundays in 1998 and 1999. Joyce White was an authentic gentle lady of the Old West, the likes of which we will not soon see again! To send condolences, please login to www.bacasfuneralchapels.com. Entrusted to the care of Baca's Funeral Chapels of Silver City, Baca's Silver City Crematory, 3805 Delk Drive, phone 388-2334. Exclusive provider for "Veterans & Family Memorial Care." Information provided by survivors.
Posted by Judy Wight Branson on April 10, 2011

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