Kenneth Eldon White, 86, Belmond, died Wed. Jan. 13, 2021 at Iowa Specialty Hospital, Belmond. Services were held Jan. 17 at Immanuel Reformed Church. Burial was in the Belmond Cemetery. ââI was born Nov. 27, 1934 at Nevada to Asa and Dorothea (Kimble) White. My folks moved to Belmond in 1939. I graduated from Belmond High School with the Class of 1953. I married Rita Garman on Jan. 24, 1955 and was married to Rita for 50 years until her passing on May 2, 2005. We had two children: Kenneth Lynn and Julie Richardson. ââI worked at Lloyd's Standard Station for two years, Jack Granzow and Ron Hummel for six months in parts and sales, and then for Len Sheldon as a mechanic from November 1956 until November 1964. Then Rita and I moved to Ankeny where I worked for Firestone for 32 years. I was a mechanic for ten years and maintenance foreman for 22 years, and was sent to France, Venezuela and England as an associate engineer to change rubber mixers, carter machine works, and to Selena, CA, Pottstown, PA and Memphis, TN to ship Firestone equipment out, and to the Akron, OH rubber plants several times.