The Filson Historical Society Digital Projects

Life After the War

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Novia James White's children photograph, ca. 1950-1955

White was honorably discharged from the military in October 1946.

After the war, he returned to family and had two more children.

He worked for newspapers in Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and Atlanta and in 1954 returned to Louisville to work with the Independence Life and Accident Insurance Company. 

He worked in newspapers in Philadelphia and Atlanta before he joined the Independent Life and Accident Insurance Company back in Louisville, Kentucky. He retired from there as Vice President in 1984.

White was an active member of the community in his later life. He was a member of the St. Matthews United Methodist Church, The Sons of the American Revolution, Kentuckiana Society of the Order of Founders and Patriots of America, Baronial Order of the Magna Charta, Order of the Crown of Charlemagne in the United States of America, The Newspaper Association of America, American Association of Woodturners, The 20th Air Force, the 58th Bomb Wing, and the 40th Bomb Group Associations (according to his Courier-Journal obituary).

White passed away in Louisville on May 11, 2013.

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Novia James White photograph, ca. 1960