Taunya Jan White

Taunya Jan (Vogel) White passed peacefully on March 21, 2025 in Charleston, South Carolina, after a long goodbye from complications related to Alzheimer's disease.

Born August 6, 1955, in Oklahoma City to Patricia and Donald Vogel, an Air Force veteran, Taunya spent her early life in South Dakota and Nebraska. Graduating from the University of Nebraska at Kearney in 1972, she embarked on various career paths, most notably in the political and fundraising arena as a senior staff member for Nebraska Governor Kay Orr, Executive Director of Hastings College Foundation, Executive Director REACH Foundation and numerous local, state and national political fundraising campaigns.

Taunya married Tim White in 1996 and in 1999 moved to Seabrook Island, South Carolina, where she founded and managed one of Charleston's first medical spa facilities, while remaining especially active in local matters as a board member for The Town of Seabrook Island, Seabrook Island Property Owners Association and The Seabrook Island Club.

Her early advocacy for more child and younger adult facilities on Seabrook Island reflects her profound nurturing care for raising her son Max and other young children on the island.

Taunya was an active choir member of Johns Island Presbyterian Church for more than ten years. 

She was preceded in death by her sister Cindy Froehlich (2002), father (2013), and is survived by her husband, her son who now lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina, her sister Dawyn Otto, her mother Patricia, both of Grand Island, Nebraska, and many nieces and nephews.

The family is planning a memorial celebration at Johns Island Presbyterian Church in early May.  

They request, if motivated, instead of flowers please consider donating to Respite Care Charleston.

 Family and friends are deeply comforted in knowing Taunya is now reacquainted with Taunya.