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Linda Kay Vandenberg White was born in Houston, Texas, the daughter of the late Colonel Duane Evert Vandenberg, USAF (Ret.), and Peggy Joyce Ward Vandenberg. She married David Newton White on May 19, 1974, in Fayetteville, Arkansas. They have two children Matthew Cooper and Emily Chase (deceased 2009). White is an honor graduate of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, where she earned a Bachelor of Science in Education in Special Education in 1974 and a Master of Education in Elementary Counseling in 1975. She pursued additional postgraduate studies at various institutions. Her professional career spanned more than twenty-five years in education and administration. She worked as a special educator serving students who were deaf, blind, multi-handicapped, learning disabled, and intellectually disabled. She later served as Vice Principal at Southwest Junior High School in the Hot Springs School District and as a psychological examiner. Mrs. White also served as an Adjunct Professor of Special Education at Henderson State University.

In addition to her educational career, Mrs. White owned an upscale women’s clothing store and founded L.K. White Realty, Inc. She is the only woman realtor in Hot Springs, Arkansas, that achieved over one million dollars in sales during her first year.

Memberships

  • Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts

  • Baronial Order of Magna Charta

  • Colonial Dames of America (State President)

  • Continental Society Daughters of Indian Wars (State Chaplain)

  • Daughters of Union Veterans of the Civil War 1861-1865

  • Descendants of Brian Boru

  • Descendants of Cape Cod and the Islands

  • Descendants of Lady Godiva (Corresponding Secretary)

  • Dutch Colonial Society

  • Dutch Settlers Society of Albany

  • Flagon and Trencher

  • Fuller Society

  • General Society of Mayflower Descendants (Deputy Governor General)

  • Guild of Colonial Artisans and Tradesmen 1607-1783 (Master Guilder)

  • Hereditary Order Descendants Loyalists & Patriots American Revolution

  • Hereditary Order of Descendants of Colonial Governors

  • Hereditary Order of the Red Dragon

  • Military Order of the Crusades

  • National Guild of Saint Margaret of Scotland

  • National Huguenot Society (State Vice President)

  • National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century (3rd Vice President General)

  • National Society Daughters of Colonial Wars

  • National Society Daughters of Founders and Patriots of America (Councillor)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Colonists (State Chaplain)

  • National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (State Recording Secretary)

  • National Society Daughters of the British Empire in the USA

  • National Society Daughters of the Union 1861-1865

  • National Society Descendants of American Farmers (Ambassador)

  • National Society Descendants of American Railroad Workers (Chaplain General)

  • National Society Descendants of Colonial Indentured Servants

  • National Society Descendants of Early Quakers (National Chaplain)

  • National Society Magna Charta Dames (State President)

  • National Society of New England Women (Historian General)

  • National Society of Saints and Sinners

  • National Society of the Colonial Dames of America (Lady of Dumbarton House Board)

  • National Society of the Dames of the Court of Honor (State Chaplain)

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of Antebellum Planters 1607-1861

  • National Society Sons and Daughters of the Pilgrims (State President)

  • National Society Southern Dames of America

  • National Society United States Daughters of 1812 (State Secretary)

  • National Society Women Descendants Ancient & Honorable Artillery Co.

  • Order of Alba (Chaplain General) 

  • Order of Americans of Armorial Ancestry

  • Order of Descendants of Colonial Physicians and Chirurgiens

  • Order of Descendants of the Justiciars (Corresponding Secretary)

  • Order of Medieval Women: Women of Consequence

  • Order of the House of Wessex

  • Order of the Kings and Queens in the Holy Lands

  • Order of the Merovingian Dynasty

  • Order of the Norman Conquest

  • Order of the Sovereigns of Ancient Scandinavia

  • Pilgrim Edward Doty Society

  • Pilgrim John Howland Society 

  • Society of Daughters of Holland Dames

  • Society of the Descendants of the Colonial Clergy

  • Sons and Daughters of the Colonial and Antebellum Bench and Bar 1565—1861

  • United Daughters of the Confederacy (Chapter Registrar)

Listed In

She has been listed in Who’s Who in College; Who’s Who in America publications worldwide

Other

Linda enjoys genealogy pursuits in addition to traveling and has visited 110 countries, seven continents, and all 50 states. White has been a knitter for 60 years She also enjoys needlepoint. White was an American Red Cross Water Safety Instructor for 50 years specializing in special education instruction. She is a Master Scuba diver and has been diving for 60 years. Since 1983, Linda and her family have lived in a 1938 restored lake house on Lake Hamilton.She enjoys gardening, swimming, and other outdoor sports. White has been a member of Delta Nu Chapter, Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority for 54 years and was State President for 25 years. White and her husband are members of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem, a papal order of knighthood since 1099. White holds the office of Dame Grand Cross Holy Sepulcher. White was a BSA leader for 20 years and was awarded The St George medal as well as being a Wood Badge member. She was on staff at both the US and World Jamboree. White is a lifetime member of GSUSA and attained the rank of 1st Class, which was the highest level at that time. She was awarded the St Anne medal as a leader.  White was an active adult in the Catholic Youth Ministry and chaperoned groups to World Youth Day in Germany, Australia, and Germany. She has been a Lecturer, an Extraordinary Minister of Holy Communion at St John the Baptist Catholic Church. White was on the PTO Board at St. John’s Catholic School and was the Sports Mom in many sports. White and her family have 5 rescue cats and three rescue dogs. White has made Braille flags and held Braille flag workshops for over thirty years.

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