Rose DeNese (Chandler) White, January 1, 1925 – March 30, 2020.

On Monday, March 30, 2020, our beloved Mother, Grandmother, Great Grandmother, Great Great Grandmother, Rose DeNese White was reunited with her loving husband, who preceded her in death. After missing Dad for almost 38 years, Heavenly Father called Mom home. At age 95, Mom passed away peacefully at her daughter's home in Nampa Idaho.

DeNese was born Jan 1, 1925, in Inkom, Idaho, the daughter of James (Jim) Victor Chandler and Agnes LaVera Davids Chandler.  This darling little girl was the fifth child of twelve children born to James (Jim) and Agnes. They all lived in a modest home in Buckskin where Mom and her siblings loved to roam, and where love abounded.  Mom attended the one room Buckskin school until the 5 ^th grade.  To receive a better education, her parents enrolled her in the Inkom School where she later graduated.  After high school, Mom moved to Pocatello, lived at the YWCA with her sisters, and worked at a local bank as a bookkeeper.  Mom loved to dance.  She frequently attended the local dances with her sisters.

DeNese met John (Jack) Curtis White while he worked as a range rider for the Portneuf Cattleman's Association, and a few years later they were married on April 2, 1948 in Inkom, Idaho.  In June, 1965 they were sealed in the Logan Utah LDS Temple.

When they were first married, Dad worked for the Portneuf Cattlemen's Association.  They rotated living between Pebble, Toponce, and the family farm in Chesterfield.  During 1954, they moved to Robin, Idaho to manage a farm, and purchased a sawmill.  Later, they moved the sawmill to Chesterfield and purchased the White family farm from Jack's father.  Along with Jack's brother Ed, the family formed the White Brothers Lumber Company.  Mom managed the contracts, finances, and bookkeeping for both the family farm and the lumber company.

Mom lived in three different homes on the family farm.  First they lived in a small clapboard house for many years with no indoor plumbing.  Around 1957, they moved across the street into the old school house that had been moved onto the farm property and converted into a home.  After many more years, Dad built Mom her dream home on the property across the street where the old clapboard house used to sit.

Mom had a gift of being able to make any place she lived in a comfortable and loving home.  She also enjoyed raising prize winning vegetables and flowers in her gardens that she often displayed at the county fairs.

Mom and Dad were active members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mom served faithfully in many callings, including Primary, Sunday School, Young Women, and Relief Society.  Mom and Dad served in the Logan Utah LDS Temple.  In her later years, Mom spent countless hours indexing in the Bancroft Ward genealogy library.

Mom was a 4-H leader and a member of the Chesterfield Foundation, which helped to restore the original town site of Chesterfield.  She also helped with local government elections.

Mom and Dad were blessed with 8 children (4 girls & 4 boys), who helped them on the family farm and sawmill.  Mom taught all of her children how to milk cows, feed lambs, ride horses, and wrangle cows.  She also taught all of them (boys and girls alike) how to cook, sew, home can food, bake, grow a garden, butcher chickens, beef, and deer, grind horseradish, and make homemade soap.  She also taught them kindness and love.  When the children were bickering, she would make them hug each other and have them sing her favorite hymn, "Love at Home".  Mom was always singing uplifting songs around the house, which is one of the endearing things her grandchildren remember about her.

Mom enjoyed sewing, crocheting, quilting, gardening, crafts, cooking, and baking.  Mom loved baking bread and cinnamon rolls. We often had people stop by for her baked goods and jams.  There were frequently extra people at the lunch and dinner table because of Mom's generous hospitality and delicious food. Mom was also an avid reader in her later years, and loved to put puzzles together.

Mom was the matriarch of a very large family, with 125 grand, great-grand, and great-great grandchildren. She truly treasured her role as a mother and grandmother, and found great joy in both.

Mom's husband, Jack was killed in a farming accident in June of 1982.  Mom stayed on the family farm and helped manage it for several years.  Later, Mom moved to Bancroft, after the farm was sold, where she lived for the remainder of her life.

Mom is survived by her eight children; Becky Dahl, Nampa, Idaho; Raymond (Michelle) White, Bancroft, Idaho; Fred (Debbie) White, Chubbuck, Idaho; Sherry (Rick) Hill, Idaho Falls, Idaho;  Delene (Lester) Barfuss, Bancroft, Idaho; Charles (Terri) White, Bancroft, Idaho; Renee (Chuck) Verbeck, Laurel, Montana; Pat (LaDawn) White, Grace, Idaho; 42 grandchildren, 62 great grandchildren, 19 great great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews; 2 brothers, George Chandler, Inkom, Idaho; Seren (Peggy) Chandler, Inkom, Idaho; 3 sisters; Anora Woods, Pocatello, Idaho; Marie Moser, Inkom, Idaho; Beatrice Schaffer, Inkom, Idaho;

Mom was preceded in death by her husband, Jack, her parents, 2 brothers, 4 sisters, 2 grandsons, and 1 son-in-law.  She had gone to visit her eldest daughter Becky Dahl, in Nampa, Idaho, for a few weeks, where she passed away.  Our little Momma endured to the very end, her frail little body finally giving way to eternal peace.

Due to the Covid-19 restrictions, there will be no services held at this time.  She will be laid to rest in Bancroft, Idaho Cemetery under the directions of the SIMS Funeral Home.   There will be a celebration of life held at a later date.