White Sisters – Barb White Sandall and Louise White Siegel

Interview Date: 22 April 2022

Louise was born in Princeville’s hospital, Seven Oaks Sanitarium. She graduated from Brimfield High School in 1957, working at Memler’s Store during high school. Louise raised her four boys at the White homestead where she grew up.  Barb graduated from Brimfield High School in 1965. She married Roger Sandall and they raised their two girls in a Hamilton Sears home on VanBuren in Brimfield. Barb’s husband Roger is honored with a memorial in the Brimfield Grade School gym because of his years of volunteer service as a school board member and fire department, including being the fire chief. In the interview Barb also shares Roger’s involvement in an attempt to organize the Brimfield Jaycees.  Louise and Barb’s parents Lawrence E (Red) White and Ruby White raised 8 children. Red White owned a feed store/trucking business in Brimfield while his wife Ruby ran the household and sold cream to folks in Brimfield. Viewers of this interview will learn about the White Homestead located near the Brimfield Elevator and the White Feed Store. 

Introduction, growing up in Brimfield, White family 
15:00 White homestead 
22:35 White Feed Store 
28:15 Brimfield Elevator 
29: 55 Lawrence E. Red White 
31: 35 Working at Memler’s Store 
37:19 Sandall’s Sears Home 
40:40 Roger Sandall Memorial 
44:34 Brimfield Jaycees

Seven Oaks Sanitarium 
Brimfield Grade School 
Brimfield High School 
Ewalt’s Roller Rink 
Hunts 
Finnegin Hill 
Jubilee Needle Circle 
Brimfield Train Depot 
Brimfield Elevator 
Lochers Feed Store 
White Feed Store 
Memler’s Store 
Old Settlers 
Zern’s Store 
Bragg Shoe Repair 
Lucky’s Grill 
Busy Bee 
Cady’s Store 
Hamilton Sears home 
Robert Tucker 
Brimfield Fire Chief 
Brimfield School Board 
Jaycees 
Jaycee Jamboree

Interviewed by : Kim Claybaugh Hanks

Interview Format : Zoom Video Interview with Slideshow Presentation

Total Time : 51:13

The interview is archived at the Brimfield Public Library District in Brimfield, Illinois.

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