Can you get us a closer up picture of the bark on the lower left side of that first photo? I think everyone is looking at the inner bark that is still remaining and not the true bark....
Well, if that is a white ash that's gotten that distorted looking I'm amazed it hasn't come down. Then again, the ashes here are dying of ash yellows not EAB (yet), and that's a slower process - so by the time they'd get that far gone they'd have been failing for a long time.