Judith Ann (Vickrey) White was born January 22, 1945 in Emporia, Kansas, to Abner H. Vickrey and Margaret Mae (Burris) Vickrey and passed away November 11, 2023. Their family moved to Canton, Kansas, when Judy was 3 years old. She met James White, her future husband, when he was in the eighth grade and she was in seventh.
The high school sweethearts married on August 9, 1964, and started their married life in Fort Hood, Texas, where James was stationed in the Army. Once he was discharged, they moved back to Canton to the farmstead they still call home.
Judy was a city kid so farming and raising cattle were all new to her, but with the help of James and her father-in-law, George, she learned to drive the tractor and wheat trucks with the best of them. No cowboy could outwork her, and her favorite time was watching young calves run around the pasture with their tails in the air.
For many years, she made custom decorated cakes for weddings, birthdays, graduations, and more. This filled her spare time when she wasn't farming, sitting on the back of the flatbed shaking cubes out to the cattle or trying to keep her kids in line.
Judy was preceded in death by their stillborn son, Jay, and her brother, Abner A. Vickrey.
Judy is survived by James; son Justin and his wife, Adrianna, of Canton; daughter Jennifer and her husband, Ty Theurer, of Coldwater; as well as granddaughters Haylee (RodRick) Seeber and Emily White; grandsons Grant and Grady Theurer; and great-grandsons Augustus Seeber and baby boy Seeber due in March. Her brother Larry Vickrey of McPherson also survives.
A graveside service will be held at 2 p.m., November 20, 2023, at the Canton Township Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be sent to Pine Village of Moundridge, in care of Olson's Mortuary, Canton.