Gene White Dies in New York
Episcopal News Service. November 22, 1988 [88255]
NEW YORK (DPS, Nov. 23) -- The Rev. Gene T. White, Jr., a Communications Officer of the Presiding Bishop's Fund for World Relief and a leader for the Episcopal Church in refugee and migration ministries, died of cancer on November 12.
White, who was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1948, graduated from Hobart College and General Theological Seminary. He was ordained to the priesthood in 1973, and served as curate at the Church of the Redeemer in Pittsburgh for two years. In 1979, Presiding Bishop John Allin appointed White Communications Officer of the Presiding Bishop's Fund. Throughout his years at the Episcopal Church Center, he served on the staff of the Refugee Migration Ministry. He represented the Episcopal Church on various committees and working groups of the National Council of Churches, Church World Service, the International Council of Voluntary Agencies, and the American Council for Voluntary International Action.
Associated with the Church of St. Luke-in-the-Fields in New York City from seminary days (when it was St. Luke's Chapel of Trinity Parish), he was an active member of the parish, was elected to its first vestry, and was a non-stipendiary priest of the parish. White was also a member of the Board of Directors of the Counseling and Human Development Center and a longtime member of the Union of Black Episcopalians.
He is survived by M. Louise White, his mother.
White's funeral was held at the Church of the Holy Cross in Pittsburgh. Memorial services were held at the Episcopal Church Center and at the Church of St. Luke-in-the-Fields in New York.