Page County IA Archives Obituaries.....Whitmore, Wayne 1963
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Wayne Whitmore
Owned Page County State Bank, pioneer family of the Coin area.
1894 - 1963
Services for Wayne Whitmore, will known banker and farm owner of this area, are
to be at 2 p m Friday at the Methodist Church in Coin, Roland Funeral Home of
Corning is in charge of arrangements. 
Mr. Whitmore, 69, died at 11:20 Wednesday morning at the Municipal Hospital. He
had been confined to his home since moving to Clarinda in April.
 A native of Coin, he moved to Corning 14 years ago when he became associated
with his son Floyd in the Okey-Vernon National Bank as chairman of the board of
directors. In December of this year the Whitmores purchased controlling interest
in the Page County State Bank, Mr. Whitmore having moved to Clarinda to
supervise the work here.
 He was born Jan. 10, 1894, at Coin, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Forrest E.
Whitmore, a pioneer couple who homesteaded in Page County. In 1916 he was
married to Miss Faye T Cheshire of Northboro, the couple having met at a 4-H
camp. Mr. Whitmore was a member of the first 4-H club in Page County and had
always helped to foster the idea that 4-H was born in the county under the
leadership of Jessie Field Shambaugh. He had continued his interest in 4-H,
helping to establish Burr Oak cabin at the 4-H camp in honor of Mrs. Shambaugh.
He was recently made an honorary member of the Iowa 4-H clubs. Last August he
was one of five members of the original Corn Club that honored Mrs. Shambaugh
with a surprise visit during the Page County Fair. The Corn Club won
international honors as the champion corn judges for three years in a row from
1910 through 1912. For two of those years Mr. Whitmore was top individual corn
judge in Iowa.
 Mr. and Mrs. Whitmore lived at Coin after their marriage until moving to
Corning in 1949. During that time he was quite active in farming and grain
businesses. The Whitmores have always keep their ties with Coin, three of their
sons -- Lloyd, Wayne and Keith -- living on the Whitmore farms. Within the past
10 years they have built two new homes west of town. Last summer the new
Methodist parsonage at Coin was dedicated, having been a gift to the church from
Mr. Whitmore and his wife. They have also promoted the building of the new
church which is under construction now.
Besides his wife and three sons at Coin and one at Corning, Mr. Whitmore is
survived by a son, Dr. William Whitmore of Iowa City, two brothers, Mayne of
Coin and Vern of Yorktown, and 11 grandchildren. 
The family has requested that memorials be established in a memorial fund at the
Coin Methodist Church.


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