His middle name may have been Onis or Oney instead of Eugene.
He told us his father was half Native American from around the Great Lakes area. Menominee? or something like that. He showed us a map when we were children and pointed out the area and the name of the tribe (but we were all young and cannot remember exactly what he told us). Mom thinks it was his Mother who was part Indian.
He made awesome homemade Yeast Doughnuts!
He had brothers & sisters but their names are not known.
He was an Underwater Welder in the Seabees.
The Navy put him in a Tuberculosis Hospital in Texas. He remarried Bessie after he was released from the hospital.
He spent time in California while he and Bessie were divorced and may have married (or not) a woman there and had a daughter named Patty.
The following is 100% true and accurate:
Flem White and Maggie White (White was her maiden name) were the parents of Albert White. Albert married Bessie Kelley and fathered James Walter White who married Betty Joe York and fathered me: Catherine Neal White. My daughter by Adell Ward Jr is Jennfier Denise Ward