![]() Saindon were just laughing and having the best time.’ “The person she talked to on the phone said, ‘He and Dr. They were surprised to hear about his death, Nelson said. Nelson said her mother called the office Thursday morning to talk to the employees there. On Wednesday, one of the last things he did was go to the dentist’s office. The family have a lot of comfort knowing that is what he was doing on his last day. Nelson also noted that her father had a love of lifting the spirits of others through humor. The next thing he knows, we were in Louisville, over an hour away.” ![]() “And my husband thought he meant somewhere in town. They were living in Lawrenceburg, and her father said, “Let’s go to lunch.” In fact, she related a story about the day her father met her then-boyfriend (now husband). “He was the type of dad to say, ‘Why are you doing your homework? That’s boring. She said White found it important to expose his children to as many situations as possible – from stopping to talk to the woman snapping beans on a porch in rural Kentucky to going to New York City. She said her father had lost his own father when he was 7 years old, and she feels like that impacted his life and his desire to connect with other people. When asked what life was like with her father, she said, “It was always an adventure.” That helped shape their lives, she said, with her pursuing a communications job and her brother, a teacher, earning a communications degree. Nelson said her father instilled the love of journalism in them, sometimes taking them with him when he worked. ![]() It was there he also raised his children – daughter Nelson and son Dan. White spent most of his career as editor and publisher of The Anderson News. Missing contact with the public, he joined Landmark Community Newspapers as editor of The Casey County News in 1975, where he served until moving to Anderson County in 1978 with his wife Carol. It outlined news items that happened in days gone by, from as far back as 90 years ago.Įarly in his journalism career, White left Somerset in 1972 to accept a position as wire editor of The Lexington Leader. That column, Pulaski’s Past, was a popular feature of the paper. He is known well here in Pulaski County, where he not only got his start in journalism at the Commonwealth Journal in 1970, but also spent the last 10 years writing a column for the Saturday Edition. White, a longtime journalist whose career spanned 50 years, passed away suddenly Wednesday at the age of 74. “He called what he did with feature writing ‘living obituaries.’ It was so important to him to tell people’s stories.” Those were the words of Don White’s daughter, Amanda White Nelson, talking to the Commonwealth Journal about her father’s death.
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