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Jerry LeRoy WHITE was born on Apr 8 1936 at home at 229 N. Drexel Ave. 
in Indianapolis, Indiana with no one present except he and his mother.  His mother 
Maryann (nee NOBLITT) tells that when she felt the labor pains and knew the birth 
was near, she sent Betty, Jerry's sister, next door to tell the neighbor to; 
1) Call the doctor and tell him "It's time" and he better hurry; 
2) Call Jerry's father at work, tell him "It's time to take her to the hospital", 
and tell him to hurry; 
3) Bring the neighbor back to be with her until help arrived and she better hurry.  
Everyone was on their way but Jerry got there first.  
When he was 8 years old in 1944 his Uncle Andy came to visit in his Navy uniform and 
told of the big ships and vast oceans, Jerry was hooked and said from that time that he 
would join the Navy and learn a trade just like his Uncle Andy.  He joined the Navy 
after graduating from High School and served on active duty from 1955 to 1958 aboard 
the heavy cruiser USS Salem CA139.  The USS Salem was the Flagship of the Sixth Fleet 
and as such was stationed for over two years in the Mediterranean visiting such ports 
of call as France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Greece, Yugoslavia, Turkey, Lebanon and 
North Africa to name a few.  
He was trained in electronics in the Navy and used that to his advantage
throughout his life.  He worked for AT&T for almost 30 years in electronics
testing and repair, supervision and about half  of that career was spent in direct
customer sales. During his career with the Bell System he was assigned to many cities 
including Indianapolis,  South Bend IN, Morristown NJ, and Middletown, Cincinnati, 
Dayton and Columbus OH.   He retired from AT&T in 1987.  
He tried full time retirement for a year or two but was bored and went to work for 
Mead Data Central (Lexis/Nexis) as a systems analyst for 5 years before retiring from 
there in 1994.  
He again tried full retirement but was bored and went to work in 1995 for the 
Bellefontaine Ohio Examiner Newspaper as an Advertising Executive and retired from there 
in December of 1998.
This time the retirement appears to be final.  Jerry is a 32 Degree Scottish
Rite Mason and an active member of the Bellefontaine Knights Templar, York Rite
Masonic Order and a Kentucky Colonel.
In 2003 Jerry and Sandee moved to Sun City Hilton Head in Bluffton,  South Carolina.  
Jerry picked up a tenor guitar from ebay, started a music group called the Sun City 
Strummers in 2005 and there are currently 38 resident members.  Then in 2017 he 
started the Strummer Ukulele Group wich currently has 43 members. Both Groups play 
for assisted living/nursing homes in the area as well as for various other Sun City 
club activities throughout the year.

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