In a 2011 photo, Janae White looks out her window as she practices on the piano in her home between East Wenatchee and Rock Island. White had undergone several surgeries since 2009 to remove brain tumors and played the piano daily to help her recovery.
ROCK ISLAND ? Janae White passed away Tuesday at her home in Rock Island after a long battle with brain cancer. She was 54.
The Wenatchee World published a feature story about White March 15, 2011, titled ?The fight of her life.? She fought courageously for nearly four years.
White, the wife of local entrepreneur and businessman Calvin White, was first diagnosed with cancer in 2009, after suffering a seizure while watching Fourth of July fireworks with her family.
White was shocked by the discovery. A Mormon, she never drank, smoked or took drugs and always tried to live a healthy life. She was an accomplished concert pianist who performed widely and recorded several CDs. She played organ in her church and taught seminary classes. She was a Gold?s Gym trainer and bodybuilder who had won contests throughout the Northwest. She worked with her husband to operate various Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants they owned in the Northwest. She was the mother of six children and had 15 grandchildren.
Doctors gave her only a few months to live on several occasions. But she fought on, undergoing numerous conventional and alternative treatments. Two years ago, exams showed most of the tumors had shrunk or arrested in their growth. Doctors told her she was doing remarkably well, but that the cancer would likely return.
Janae White
Janae White reads to her grandchildren in this 2011 photo, from left: Brielle Lintz, 6, Sicily Lintz, 2 (center back), Kennedy Lott, 20 months, and Bentley Lott, 3.
Her condition deteriorated over the past year despite ongoing treatments.
A commemoration service will be held at 11 a.m. Monday at the East Wenatchee Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints with internment to follow in Evergreen Memorial Park.
Rick Steigmeyer: 664-7151
steigmeyer@wenatcheeworld.com
Source: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2013/apr/05/brain-cancer-claims-janae-white-courageous-battler/
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