Individual Details
Edna Earl White
(Feb 1897 - 19 May 1966)
Long Beach, Los Angeles Co., CA:
Elmer Renken 36 Illinois
EDNA (wife) 42 Missouri
(Divorced Step-Son)
Virgil Wright 27 Arkansas
WWII Navy Casualties:
ELMER RENKEN
Gunner's Mate 2c
(Wounded in Action)
Wife: Edna Earl Renken
2130 Gale Avenue
Long Beach, California
Sources:
The Sun Newspaper - Yuma, Arizona
Yuma Daily Sun & The Yuma, AZ Sentinel
U.S. Social Security Death Index
World War II Navy, Marine Corps & Coast Guard Casualties: 1941-1945
Events
| Birth | Feb 1897 | Missouri | |||
| Census (family)-shared | 7 Jun 1900 | (Daniel M. Montague and Maude Blanche Michie) Virginia, Pemiscot County, Missouri |  |  | |
| Census (family)-shared | 19 Apr 1910 | (Daniel M. Montague and Maude Blanche Michie) Tyronza, Poinsett County, Arkansas | | | |
| Marriage | 17 Aug 1911 | Craighead County, Arkansas - George Wright | | ||
| Census-shared | 10 Jan 1920 | (Maude Blanche Michie) Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California | | | |
| Census | 16 Apr 1930 | Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California | | | |
| Marriage | 31 Dec 1935 | Compton, Los Angeles County, California - Elmer Renken | | ||
| Census (family) | 18 Apr 1940 | Long Beach, Los Angeles County, California - Elmer Renken | | | |
| Death | 19 May 1966 | Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona | | ||
| Burial | Rose Hills Memorial Park, Whittier, Los Angeles County, California | |
Families
| Spouse | Dan Allen (1897 - ) |
| Spouse | Elmer Renken (1903 - ) |
| Spouse | Johnson ( - ) |
| Spouse | George Wright (1881 - ) |
| Child | Virgil W. Wright (1912 - ) |
| Father | John Edward White (1869 - 1900) |
| Mother | Maude Blanche Michie (1875 - 1941) |
| Sibling | Cora Blanche White (1894 - 1966) |
Notes
Census (family)-shared
Daniel MontagueHeadM30Tennessee - FarmerMaude B MontagueWifeF25Missouri
Gertrude MontagueDaughterF0Missouri
Guy MontagueSonM0Missouri
Cora WhiteStepdaughterF6Missouri
Edna WhiteStepdaughterF3Missouri
Census (family)-shared
Daniel M MontagueHeadM39Tennessee - Bolt-makingMaud B MontagueWifeF34Missouri
Guy MontagueSonM10Missouri
Cora B WhiteStepdaughterF15Missouri
Edna ? WhiteStepdaughterF13Missouri
Census-shared
Maud Montague Head F 42 Missouri - Spooling, woolen millsCora WhiteDaughterF25Missouri - Assistant bookkeeper, lumber company
Edna AllenDaughterF23Missouri
Dan AllenSon-in-lawM23Ohio - Box maker
Virgil WrightGrandsonM7Arkansas
Gertrude FisherRoomerF29Indiana
Virgil FisherRoomerM8Arkansas
Woodrow FisherRoomerM7Arkansas
Gwendoline FisherRoomerF2Arkansas
Guy MontagueSonM19Missouri
Census
Edna E JohnsonHeadF32MissouriVirgil W WrightSonM17Arkansas
Virgil WrightGrandsonM2Arkansas
Warren BeaugardLodgerM24North Dakota
Census (family)
Elmer RenkinHeadM36 Illinois - Chief gunner's mate, US NavyEdna RenkinWifeF42Missouri
Virgil WrightStepsonM27Arkansas - Chef, cafe
Death
The Yuma Daily & the Arizona Sentinel, Wednesday, May 25, 1966BLAME DRIVER IN DEATH OF MRS. RENKEN, 69
A coroner's jury ruled yesterday afternoon that Mrs. Edna Earl Renken, 69, Bard and Yuma, met her death by negligence of the driver of a station wagon. The jury of six men took about seven minutes to come to their verdict after hearing four witnesses at the inquest. Coroner Ersel C. Byrd, presided. Questions were asked by County Attorney David Ellsworth. Court Reporter Joyce Urtoxuastegui took notes for an official transcript.
Witnesses were Howard Gorman, 407 19th Avenue; Sidney Maiden, 168 N. 12th Avenue; Jim Fuquay, 1130 6th Avenue and Police Officer John Bennson, 1338 15th Street.
LOOKED LIKE
Gorman testified that the driver of the station wagon looked like a drunk man in the area of 4th Avenue and 11th Street, where Gorman had told the driver to stop his vehicle after an accident on the Safeway parking lot. Gorman said the driver failed to heed anyone and drove off at an unsafe speed.
Maiden testified that he saw the station wagon moving west on 12th Street, run a stop sign at 5th Avenue, while moving about 50 miles an hour and proceed west. Since his wife was driving, Maiden looked toward 6th Avenue and saw the pickup turn over. They then turned around and went to the accident scene.
Supervisor Fuquay said he had just sat down to eat, when he heard a crash about 7:13 p.m., May 19th. He went to the scene at the corner and observed a woman lying there, who appeared to be dead, a man lying by the curb trying to get up near the station wagon and another man inside a pickup.
Officer John Benson said he observed the same three persons, had asked the man in the pickup about the woman. He said he felt a dying pulse of the woman, before the ambulance arrived. Further, he said the man nearest the station wagon gave the name of John McDonaugh and later the name of Charles Clinton Ponder, 55, Dixie Hotel.
Ponder has been charged with manslaughter with gross negligence, a felony. Although no preliminary hearing has been held, attorney Edith Nebaker has been appointed by the Superior Court to defend him. Members of the coroner's jury were Robert C. Byrd, Robert F. Coop, F. B. Allstat, Art Frazier, Robert R. Pettit and George T. Vaught.
Tuesday, June 28, 1966
The Sun Newspaper
Yuma, Yuma County, Arizona:
Charles O. Ponder, 56, Yuma, was charged with manslaughter with gross negligence. The charge resulted from an automobile accident at 6th Avenue and 12th Street in which EDNA E. RENKEN was killed.
Endnotes
1. "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M383-H3C : accessed 30 August 2017), Maude B Montague in household of Daniel Montague, Coutre & Virginia Townships, Pemiscot, Missouri, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 91, sheet 5A, family 78, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,880..
2. "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKVL-1Y4 : accessed 30 August 2017), Maud B Montague in household of Daniel M Montague, Tyronza, Poinsett, Arkansas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 116, sheet 2A, family 20, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 61; FHL microfilm 1,374,074..
3. "Arkansas, County Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:NMT6-KH7 : 22 December 2016), Geo Wright and Edna White, 17 Aug 1911; citing , Craighead, Arkansas, United States, county offices, Arkansas; FHL microfilm 1,293,965..
4. "United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHQ8-QM1 : accessed 30 August 2017), Guy Montague in household of Maud Montague, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing ED 90, sheet 13A, line 19, family 317, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 104; FHL microfilm 1,820,104..
5. "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XCJL-ZPD : accessed 30 August 2017), Edna E Johnson, Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1115, sheet 25B, line 54, family 826, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 130; FHL microfilm 2,339,865..
6. "California, County Marriages, 1850-1952," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/K8JL-NMC : accessed 04 Mar 2014), John White in entry for Elmer Renken and Edna E Johnson, 1935..
7. "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch(https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K9HN-5NW : accessed 30 August 2017), Edna Renkin in household of Elmer Renkin, Councilmanic District 7, Long Beach, Long Beach Judicial Township, Los Angeles, California, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 59-116B, sheet 5A, line 16, family 124, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 373..
8. Find A Grave Memorial# 144548120.