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FLORENCE K. passed away quietly at home on December 25, 2011. Born at home as Florence Harriet Kertz on October 11, 1916 to Florence May Marks Kertz and James Joseph Kertz of Brooklyn, New York, she married Army Corps of Engineers officer Charles V. White in Jamaica, New York on October 30, 1942. After WWII they lived in Bennington, Vermont, where Charles worked as a lithographer. The couple moved to Albuquerque in 1956, where they eventually became the owners of Eukabi Publishing, dealing in art and Native American jewelry. Eukabi Publishing had been founded much earlier by Charles' stepfather, Eugene Bischoff, known in New Mexico partly for his portraits of Pueblo dignitaries and for Eastern U.S. landscape paintings, and his mother, Kay Bischoff. Retiring in 1980, Florence and Charles travelled and photographed worldwide. They were avid opera fans, and were devoted to animals, particularly dogs and wild birds. Florence was predeceased by husband Charles; sister, Dorothy; and brothers, James and Edward. Florence is remembered by all who knew her for her love and her incredible sense of humor. We were blessed. She will be interred beside Charles in the Santa Fe National Cemetery.
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