Then kindly revert back to put your site to previous stable release. Because in this year WordPress has many major updates and so did our themes and plugins and it can crash your website because of conflicts. Now, you can revert back to earlier stable release then it will be done step by step or you can put if working on some staging site and once done you can put all live.
Well, You have to remove any text you want to remove. Once you add an element it has some default text which you have to remove and it should not show up at all. Let me know if you removed and it is still showing ?
