Glen Allen "Skip" White

Glen "Skip" Allen White passed away peacefully at his home on May 25, 2024 after a brief battle with cancer. He was surrounded by his loving wife of 54 years and his family.
Skip was born on April 22, 1945, to William "Buster" and Matilda "Tillie" White in Billings, MT. Raised on his family farm near Boyd, Montana, Skip developed and mastered his lifelong mechanical skills.
Skip attended Victory Elementary School until it closed, then continued his education at Boyd through middle school and graduated from Joliet High School. While attending Eastern Montana College, he met his future wife, Pamela Bassett. Skip and Pam would each earn teaching degrees; his in Mathematics and hers in Elementary Education. Skip enlisted in the Army and while on R&R leave, he sent a plane ticket to Pam and told her if she could get to Hawaii he would marry her. They married on December 26, 1969. Skip would leave for Vietnam five days later.
After returning home, Skip and Pam both received teaching positions in Hysham, Montana, with Skip as a High School Math Teacher and Pam as a 4th Grade Teacher. Two things were guaranteed in his classes: you were going to have homework, and you would learn math. During the summers, Skip worked for the Montana Migrant Program. That program would eventually become his full-time post-retirement career until his death.
Skip had many hobbies throughout his life, including flying, camping, and RZR riding with friends and family. He restored his 1969 Chevelle with his teenaged son Jason and found himself working on it yet again with Jason's oldest son Tanner. He was an avid pilot, a certified flight instructor and enjoyed flying his airplane throughout his life. Father's Day weekend of 2014 Skip had the pleasure of cutting the shirt tail of his youngest son Levi, when Levi had completed his first solo flight. Skip and Levi would often race to be first in the air at dawn, each from their separate locations across the state. In 2023 Skip was awarded The Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award.
Skip made a positive impact on anyone who crossed his path, whether it was a warm conversation with a stranger or thoughtful advice to a friend. He was kind, generous, and always willing to lend a helping hand to friends and strangers alike. There was nothing Skip couldn't fix, and he could often be found in his shop tinkering with something!
Skip is survived by his wife, Pam; his sons Jason (Shanna) White and Levi (Allison) White; brothers Butch (Irene) White and Rick (Verdine) White; brothers-in-law Otis (Sandy) McCloskey and Ken (Tonya) Russell; grandkids Tanner, Jenna, Nathan, and Jett; and several nieces, nephews, and cousins.