Charlotte Josephine White

Charlotte Josephine White passed away on Wednesday, January 7, 2009. She was born in San Diego on August 12, 1913. She loved Southern California and lived her entire life in the area.

Charlotte’s parents owned the 5 Cent Restaurant in San Diego in the 1930s and it was one of her favorite memories. She liked to reminisce about that time in her life. As a young girl, she lived on Utah Street and later moved to Idaho Street to her parents’ apartment complex, which they named the Charlotte Apartments.

She later moved to Long Beach to raise her only son, Daniel Winfield White. She owned and operate...