Steven Virgil White was born October 3, 1928, in Loma Linda, California.
He spent six years with the Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C., and Hinsdale, Illinois.
in 1961, White began working with the Bechtel Corporation as the contracts manager in the legal department.
[1][2] When he died, White was president of the Oakland Stake of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a position he had held less than three months.
[1][2] White served as a director of the Merritt-Peralta Medical Center, chairman of radio station KOIT's advisory board, chairman of the National Advisory Council of Brigham Young University's School of Management, and the advisory board of the Utah Symphony.