Karl Bert White Jr.

Karl Bert White Jr., (b: 02/14/26~d: 01/25/15) of New Britain is extended this final tribute as his spirit now rests in eternity with those who have gone before including his wife Katherine (Ulisse) White, and son Colby E. White.

Karl, born Robert Murray Nichols, was adopted as an infant by Karl B. White, Sr. and Lena (Dunsmoor). He was raised in Farmington, Maine until the family moved to New Britain in 1941. He graduated from NBHS and served in the US Navy WWII AOM (1944-46) and honorably discharged. He married Katherine in 1948 and they raised their six children as he served with the City of New Britain Police Department from 1957 to his retirement in 1983.

He served the city well in his law enforcement capacity and was appointed head of the special services squad in 1965, promoted to detective in 1966 and became the seventh member of the NBPD to graduate from the National Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (80th Session) in 1967. He knew every phase of police work, and he participated in the Command Training Institute program at Babson College, and special sessions at Quantico, VA and Oklahoma City, OK, as well as overseeing the training program in what was then the NBPDs own police academy. He served as a sergeant for many years and in 1981 he was named Acting Captain and served in that capacity until his retirement. Police work was a large part of Karl’s identity and he served with a sense of pride that his entire family shared.

On November 25, 1968 Karl received and acknowledged the order of Free Masons becoming a Master Mason. He was affiliated with Friendship Lodge No. 33. In his heyday, he enjoyed vacations in Maine, riding his motorcycle, fishing, coin collecting, metal detecting and wood working. He spent countless hours working on cars and was very mechanically inclined. Karl enjoyed his Thursday cribbage games and catching up with friends on Saturday morning at McDonald’s. He was predeceased by his dear friends, Carroll Merchant, Ron Burhoe and Irving Warner. His upbringing, in true New England fashion, realized a man with dry humor and an ironic pessimism.

There are many memories shared by his children: Robert (Melissa Grady) White; Susan (Donald) Brodeur, Nancy, Leslie, and Karl III and grandchildren: Alden (Seth) Ballard; Eric (Emily) White; Orly White, Julie Brodeur, Ben Brodeur and Neville White ~ thus assuring a long and lasting legacy.

"The thought of death leaves me in perfect peace, for I have a firm conviction that our spirit is a being of indestructible nature; it works on from eternity to eternity, it is like the sun, which though it seems to set to our mortal eyes, does not really set, but shines on perpetually." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Visitation will be Friday, Jan., 30th (10:00-12:00) at NB Memorial Sagarino Funeral Home, 444 Farmington Ave, New Britain. Burial will be private.