Dr. Benjamin Vroom White Jr. M.D. married
Helen Cobb Sullivan. Dr. Benjamin Vroom White Jr. M.D. was born on 19. Feb. 1908. He was the son of
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Charlotte Green Conover, daughter of
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Charlotte Beasley Green. Dr. Benjamin Vroom White Jr. M.D. died on 19. Dec. 2005 his last known address was at Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts, according to the Social Security Death Index.
Benjamin White Jr.
BEDFORD _Benjamin Vroom White Jr., 97, a gastroenterologist who once lived in Amherst, died Dec. 19 at Carlton Willard Village in Bedford.
Born Feb. 19, 1908, in Summit, N.J., he was the son of the late Benjamin V. Sr. and Margaret (Risk) White.
He was educated at the Hotchkiss School, in Lakeville, Conn., graduating in 1926, Princeton University, graduating in 1930 and Harvard Medical School, graduating in 1934.
After medical school and completion of his post-graduate work at Massachusetts General Hospital, he practiced at Hartford Hospital until he joined the U.S. Navy during World War II, serving at both the Bethesda Naval Hospital and aboard the U.S.S. Benevolence in the Pacific theater.
After the war, Dr. White returned to the Hartford Hospital, where he practiced gastroenterology for over 35 years, retiring in 1981.
He and his wife lived in Amherst, at Applewood, until their declining health brought them to Bedford to be closer to family.
He was an avid and skilled sailor and enjoyed cruising the New England coast, particularly the coast of Maine.
He was an active member of Trinity Church in Hartford, Conn., and the First Congregational Church in Amherst.
He leaves his wife, Marjorie Adeline Bennett, of Carlton Willard Village, Bedford; four sons, Thomas Conover White, Colebrook, Conn., James Boyd White, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Benjamin Vroom White III, of Providence, R.I., and Richard Conover White, of Derby Line, Conn; a daughter, Charlotte Conover Cowan, of Concord; two stepsons, Stanley Cobb Solomon, of Boulder, Colo., and John Cobb Solomon, of Carlisle; a sister, Margaret (Mig) Campbell, along with several sons-in-law and daughters-in-law, 15 grandchildren, four step-grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.
His first wife, Charlotte Green Conover, and his second wife, Helen Cobb Solomon, died earlier.
Memorial gifts may be made to Massachusetts General Hospital, 165 Cambridge St., Suite 600, Boston, 02114.
Memorial services will be held at the First Congregational Church in Amherst on Jan. 14 at 2 p.m.
There will be no calling hours.
The Douglass Funeral Service is handling the arrangements. On 20. Dec. 2005.
WHITE
Formerly of Amherst, Dr. Benjamin V. White, Jr., M.D., died peacefully December 19, 2005. Predeceased by his first wife, Charlotte Green Conover, and second wife Helen Cobb Solomon. Survived by his wife Marjorie Bennett; five children of first wife, Thomas Conover White, Esq., Professor James Boyd White, Benjamin Vroom White III, Esq., Richard Conover White, Esq., and Charlotte Conover Cowan, M.D; two step-children, Professor Stanley Cobb Solomon, and John Cobb Solomon, Esq; his devoted sister, Margaret (Mig) Campbell; daughters and sons in law; 15 grandchildren, 4 step grandchildren, and 11 great grandchildren. A memorial service will be held January 14, 2006 at 2pm at the First Congregational Church of Amherst. THERE ARE NO CALLING HOURS. Obituary and register at WWW.DOUGLASSFUNERAL.COM.
BENJAMIN VROOM WHITE JR. ’30
Ben, one of the distinguished physicians in the class, died Dec. 19, 2005. His father and brother were Tigers, as were five cousins.
Ben came to Princeton from Hotchkiss, where he was on the publications board, foreshadowing interests in writing and photography. He spent summers sailing with the Cotuit Mosquitoes.
Ben’s sailing skills enabled him to spend college summers in Newfoundland with the International Grenfell Association, a forerunner of the Peace Corps that provided medical care for isolated Labrador fishing villages. Ben headed the Princeton branch, and this whetted his interest in medicine. He earned a medical degree cum laude from Harvard in 1934.
In 1933 he married Charlotte “Connie” Conover. The couple had three sons by 1942, when Ben began Navy duty at Bethesda Naval Hospital and aboard the USS Benevolence in the Pacific. He returned to practice in Hartford, Conn., as a gastroenterologist, and the couple had a fourth son and a daughter. Connie died in 1966 and Ben later married Helen Cobb Solomon, now deceased.
Ben published studies on the role psychology plays in medicine, and wrote a biography of his father-in-law Dr. Stanley Cobb, titled A Builder of the Modern Neurosciences.
To Ben’s widow, the former Marjorie Bennett; four sons; daughter Charlotte Cowan ’75; a sister; and his grandchildren and great-grandchildren, the class sends deep sympathy.
The Class of 1930.