Eleanor Jean White (1931 - 2025): Our Family History

1931 - 2025 (94 years) Has more than 100 ancestors and 4 descendants in this family tree.

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Name Eleanor Jean White

Birth 18 Aug 1931 San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

Gender Female

Census 1940 San Diego, San Diego, California, United States

Ln	Hhold	Given	Surname	Relation	BirthDate	BirthPlace	Age	Gender	Status	Years Married	Occupation	Comments
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37	4315	James	White	Head	abt 1910	Utah	30	Male	Married	0	Pharmacist Mate
38	4315	Margot Arnilla	White	Wife	abt 1911	Utah	29	Female	Married	0
39	4315	Eleanor Jean	White	Daughter	abt 1932	California	8	Female	Single	0
1	4315	Clyde Lund	White	Son	abt 1937	California	3	Male	Single	0

Transcript ID is dbid=2442&iid=m-t0627-00452-00725

Initiatory (LDS) 27 Oct 1952 SLAKE

Death 22 Nov 2025 Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States

Burial 2 Dec 2025 Bountiful City Cemetery, Davis, Utah, United States

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Person ID I4711 mytree

Last Modified 2 Dec 2025

Father	James White, Jr, b. 7 Jun 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 8 Jun 1997, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 87 years)
Mother	Margot Arvilla Lund, b. 23 Sep 1910, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 21 Jul 2005, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States (Age 94 years)
Marriage	11 Jun 1930	Ogden, Weber, Utah, United States
Notes	Marriage: Utah, Select Marriages, 1887-1966
Family ID	F38	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family Haven Day Hart, b. 28 Oct 1921, Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States d. 11 Aug 2003, Sandy, Salt Lake, Utah, United States (Age 81 years)

Marriage 27 Oct 1952 Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States

Divorce Yes, date unknown

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Family ID F3202 Group Sheet | Family Chart

Last Modified 3 Dec 2025

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	Birth - 18 Aug 1931 - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
	Census - 1940 - San Diego, San Diego, California, United States
	Initiatory (LDS) - 27 Oct 1952 - SLAKE
	Marriage - 27 Oct 1952 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Death - 22 Nov 2025 - Bountiful, Davis, Utah, United States
	Burial - 2 Dec 2025 - Bountiful City Cemetery, Davis, Utah, United States

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Birth: California Birth Index, 1905-1995

Obituary: Eleanor Hart was born August 18, 1931, in San Diego California. Her parents are James White and Margot Arvilla Lund. She is survived by her brother Clyde Lund White and her 3 sons, Dave, Dan and Chris. She has four grandchildren, Diana, Jason, Bryan and Allison and four great-grandchildren, Gerardo, Kelsey, Minda and Isaiah.

Her family moved to Bountiful Utah during her teenage years where she attended Davis High School. There she took an art class and developed her art talent. Also, while attending Davis High, she became acquainted with Mary Lou Hart. Later after her graduation, she met and dated Mary’s brother Haven Day Hart. On October 27, 1952, they were married in the Salt Lake Temple. They moved into a home in Bountiful UT, built by her husband Haven, which is at the foot of the mountain just below the Bountiful “B”. She always referred to her home as “The house upon the hill.”

There, she learned the skills of farming, gardening and bottling food. Eleanor and Haven had three boys, Dave, Dan and Chris. Eleanor instilled in them the values of work in the home and in the garden as they grew and matured. After 17 years of being married, she divorced and moved from “The house upon the hill “to a home, not upon the hill, just Southwest of the mortuary there. The courts awarded her custody of Dave and Dan and Chris and gave Dave the option of who he wanted to live with. He chose to live with his father, Haven, and visited his mom on occasions. She raised the two younger boys and taught them the gospel, honesty, good values, work, strong study habits, good health habits, exercise and doing the right things.

Eleanor taught by example. She never learned how to drive so she walked everywhere she needed locally. Her grocery store was Reams, and her general store was Grand Central. At the grocery store, she would buy very healthy ingredients to make her own bread, meals and desserts. On occasion, she would take her two boys to a burger joint on Main St in Bountiful. One summer she got adventurous and fixed up an old bicycle she had, painted it and rode that to places she had to go. That didn’t last long, she didn’t have any baskets on the bike and had a hard time trying to manage grocery bags on the handlebars. She shared with people that she had artistic ability and did some artwork for folks in the neighborhood and in her ward. As time went on, she wanted to develop some musical talent, so she learned how to play the guitar and the organ. She really enjoyed learning the organ and as her ability grew, she would record tapes of the songs she learned and shared with family, friends and her ward. She gave the tapes away as birthday, Christmas and Easter gifts. She was very proud to share her new-found organ music talent.

She was in good health for quite a while until her later years when arthritis took over which made it hard for her to walk and get around. As she aged, her health declined which kept her home bound. In time, she was admitted to the hospital for a few days, then sent back home under hospice care, only living a day and a half before she passed. Eleanor was greatly loved and appreciated for being a devoted mom, grandmother and great-grandmother.

Funeral Services will be held on Tuesday, December 2, 2025, at 11:00am at Lindquist’s Bountiful Mortuary, 727 N. 400 E. Bountiful, Utah, where friends may visit from 9:30 -10:30am prior to the service. There will also be a Visitation on Monday evening, December 1st from 6-8pm at the mortuary. Interment will follow at the Bountiful City Cemetery