Carroll A White, 85 of Rhodes, Iowa, passed away on Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, at the Iowa River Hospice Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, surrounded by his loving family.

Visitation will be from 5 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 16, at the Mitchell Family Funeral Home in Marshalltown, Iowa, with a Masonic service to follow at 7 p.m. The funeral service will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 17, at Rhodes United Methodist Church in Rhodes, Iowa. Military Honors will be performed by the Rhodes American Legion Post #456. Memorials may be directed towards the Iowa River Hospice Home or to the family. Mitchell Family Funeral Home is caring for Carroll and his family.

Carroll was born on April 11, 1927, at home in Rhodes to James Nathan White and Vesta Fern Good. His youth was spent on the family farm outside of Rhodes. He attended school in Melbourne, graduating in 1944. He enlisted in the United States Army in August of 1945 where he was stationed in Germany with the 333rd Engineer Special Service Regiment. Most of his work there was on construction projects. Carroll worked on the railroad and bridge that crossed the Rhine River at Mainz. After the Army, Carroll devoted the rest of his life to the family farm.