Grover Cleveland White, son of Casper L. (1845-1921) and Sara J. (Sheal) (1847-1927) White, was born 25 August 1885, Hastings, Barry County, Michigan. Grover was referred to as "G. C." in newspaper articles. Grover graduated from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1911 and on 22 June 1911, Okemos, Ingham County, Michigan, married Miss Mary Ethlyn Hudson. Ethlyn, born 25 June 1886, Bengal, Clinton County, Michigan, was the daughter of Rev. George Herbert and Emma Laura (Stowell) Hudson. She was a sister to Edith Fanny Hudson Bearup who taught at Okemos High School during the 1930's and 1940's.
Grover and Ethlyn had two children; Elizabeth Irene (1914-2013) and Dale Hudson (1916-1993).
World War I Draft Registration, 12 September 1918, recorded Grover employed as a teacher in Hastings School, Barry County. He was described as tall, of medium build with blue eyes and brown hair.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Thursday 23 August 1923
MERIDIAN SCHOOL NAMES TEACHERS
Okemos, Aug. 23 - Meridian Consolidated school No. 2, has hired the following teachers for the coming year: Superintendent, G. C. White, Okemos; principal, Marion Miller, Muskegon Heights; English, Helen Emery, Trufant; history, Elizabeth Harding, Ann Arbor; home economics, Margaret Tower, Lansing; fourth and sixth grades, Ethelyn Clevinger, Mason; third and fifth grades, Emma Neibling, Okemos; primary, Inez Porter, Bay City.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Thursday 18 October 1923
MASON, Oct. 18 - Friday afternoon is the time set for the unveiling of the Okemos Memorial tablet at the new Consolidated Agricultural school at Okemos. Plans have been under way for some weeks to make this an event of considerable historical prominence. The address of the day will be given by Dr. W. B. Hatzog of Mason, who will speak on "Chief Okemos and His Race." The children of the Okemos schools, very fittingly will give a pageant, portraying several episodes in Hiawatha. Superintendent G. C. White, of the Okemos school is o-operating with the committee from the Historical society to make this an event to be remembered.
The tablet, was purchased through funds contributed in bits of 5 cents each from school children of the counties of Ingham, Eaton, Shiawassee, Clinton and Ionia, and a few private subscriptions together with $200 appropriated by the Ingham county board of supervisors under the Act providing for the marking of historic spots. The base relief shows a life size portrait of Chief Okemos, and beneath a fitting tribute. Beside the program already mentioned for Friday afternoon, several special musical numbers are promised and the state historical commission as well as the county historical society will have a part in the exercises.
Okemos is considered a fitting place for the placing of this memorial owing to the fact that Chief Okemos, and his tribes, for many years used the grounds now occupied by this school as their chief camping grounds and it was here that he spent his declining years, after finally making peace with the whites, which he and his men had tried vainly to keep from their invasion of Indian territory.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Tuesday 20 November 1923
EVENT OF FRIDAY EVENING
Okemos, Nov. 20 - A Father and Son banquet, under the auspices of the Patron-Teacher's association, will be held at the new school house, Friday evening, November 23.
The speaker will be Rev. W. J. Prestidge, of Deerfield.
Tickets may be obtained from the following members of the committee: George Beaumont, Clifford N. Rix and Superintendent G. C. White.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Monday 31 May 1926
The members of the high school faculty are G. C. White, superintendent; J. C. Allen, principal; Golda Morford, Martha Pratt and Helen Deming, teachers.
Superintendent White resigned 1927-1928.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Monday 24 June 1929
OKEMOS, June 24 - G. C. White, of Reading, first superintendent of the Okemos Consolidated school, was toastmaster at the first annual alumni banquet, held Friday evening in the school auditorium. He was introduced by Maynard Eberly, '27.
Lansing State Journal (Lansing, Michigan) Friday March 26, 1948
VETERAN TEACHER DIES; FUNERAL TO BE HERE
Ann Arbor, March 26 - Death has ended the 38-year teaching career of Grover C. White, 62, of Interlochen, Mich.
White retired two years ago after serving as superintendent of schools in the Michigan communities of Dundee, Reading, Okemos, Hastings, Charlotte, Copemish and Gaines.
He died in St. Joseph Mercy hospital here Wednesday night after a year's illness.
Survivors include the widow, a son, Dr. Dale H. White of Ann Arbor, and a daughter, Mrs. Bernard Greiner of Copemish. Funeral services will be held at Lansing Saturday with burial at Okemos.
Ethlyn also graduated from MAC. Her name was listed in a 1905 MAC campus year book. Ethlyn taught school in several Michigan districts retiring in 1957 in Grand Traverse County, Michigan. She died 5 December 1972, Traverse City, Grand Traverse County.
Traverse City Record-Eagle (Traverse City, Michigan) Saturday 16 December 1972
WHITE - Mary Ethlyn White, 86, of Interlochen, passed away Friday, Dec. 5 at Grand Traverse Medical Care Facility. Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Bernard (Beth) Griner of Karlin; a son, Dr. Dale H. White, DDS, of Ann Arbor; four grandchildren; five great grandchildren; a brother, Theodore Hudson of Palm Springs, Cal. and several nieces and nephews. Mrs. White was born June 25, 1886 at St. Johns and was married June 22, 1911 in Lansing to Grover C. White who preceded her in death in March 1948. She was also preceded in death by her parents; two sisters and two brothers. Mrs. White has been a member of the Grant Methodist Church, the Interlochen Woman's Club, a former gray lady at Traverse City State Hospital and retired as a home economics teacher in 1957.
Prayer services will be held for family and friends at 8 p.m. tonight from the Terwilliger Funeral Home. Funeral services will be held Monday at 11 a.m. from Gorsline-Runciman Co. East Chapel, East Lansing, with the Rev. Lewis Buchner officiating. Interment will be in Glendale Cemetery.
Grover and Ethlyn were interred Glendale Cemetery, Okemos