About The Collection

Great grandmother, of the late Casey Fleming (Dawson) & Samuel Yu White ( Koehne / Kitabatake), the grandmother of Susan Fleming (Dawson) & Eric Arthur Koehne & Marc William White (Koehne), the mother of the late “Baby Samuel Arthur White II” (a still born child now buried in the garden (south west corner) at an unknown location at The Triple J Round Rock Ranch), Jo Ann White Koehne Wyatt Osterhout, & the late Jane Elizabeth White (Dawson). The collection on this website is named in her honor, and her wish would be and was, that all people will find comfort, peace, love, and forgiveness in the arms & gospel of Jesus Christ our Lord, The Holy Spirit, and Father Abba God Yahweh.

A devout Christian woman, always calm, meek, regal, & tender, she operated an automobile 1 single time in the late 1930s, from that day forward she never drove again. Her love of books began early in life, a precious scrapbook probably from her teen years reflects her genuine innocence, a grade school notebook from the 1920s portrays her uncanny ability to sketch with extreme accuracy, she performed “book keeping” in the early 1930s, and her knowledge of The Holy Bible was astonishing. “Granny” as she was affectionately known in the family, loved to bake and cook as she would write down many recipes, make “paper dolls”, sketch images of children, prompt us all to laugh with “funny faces”, clean and dust, read her Holy Bible, and listen to various radio stations broadcasting religious shows and sermons.

Lucille was also a “musical savant”, on her upright piano in the living room she could “instantly play any song she heard by ear”, and in her younger years she played the mandolin. After 1935 at the age of 24, she left her public job and never again worked for money, instead choosing to assist her husband and family. Her grandson Marc, will attest to this day, “I never heard her say a single negative thing about another human being in my entire life, and she never ever complained one single time about anything”. She did not partake in any alcohol or tobacco consumption, took no medications, and maintained a healthy body weight through her entire life.

As an interesting side note: when added together, starting in 1907 (116 years ago), Samuel White, Lucille White, Jane White, Jo Ann White, Marc White, Samuel Yu White, Eric Koehne, Susan Dawson, & Casey Fleming have already lived a grand total of 537 years (over half a millennium) of life, and over half (FIVE) of us are still alive (the youngest being 28 in 2022)!!! There is something to be said for a good book, clean air, farm life, lots of deep sleep, and tons of fresh vegetables!! In the year 1485 the protestant reformation had not even started yet, WOW!!!

From Wikipedia: “The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation)^[1] was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in particular to papal authority, arising from what were perceived to be errors, abuses, and discrepancies by the Catholic Church. The Reformation was the start of Protestantism and the split of the Western Church into Protestantism and what is now the Roman Catholic Church. It is also considered to be one of the events that signified the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the early modern period in Europe.^[2]“

“Prior to Martin Luther, there were many earlier reform movements. Although the Reformation is usually considered to have started with the publication of the Ninety-five Theses by Martin Luther in 1517, he was not excommunicated by Pope Leo X until January 1521. The Diet of Worms of May 1521 condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagating his ideas.^[3] The spread of Gutenberg’s printing press provided the means for the rapid dissemination of religious materials in the vernacular. Luther survived after being declared an outlaw due to the protection of Elector Frederick the Wise.”

“The initial movement in Germany diversified, and other reformers such as Huldrych Zwingli and John Calvin arose. In general, the Reformers argued that salvation in Christianity was a completed status based on faith in Jesus alone and not a process that requires good works, as in the Catholic view. Key events of the period include: Diet of Worms (1521), formation of the Lutheran Duchy of Prussia (1525), English Reformation (1529 onwards), the Council of Trent (1545–63), the Peace of Augsburg (1555), the excommunication of Elizabeth I (1570), Edict of Nantes (1598) and Peace of Westphalia (1648). The Counter-Reformation, also called the Catholic Reformation or the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic reforms initiated in response to the Protestant Reformation.^[4] The end of the Reformation era is disputed among modern scholars.”