WARALL WHIPPLE Obituary: Lafourche Parish, La. Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Source: Daily Comet, Thibodaux, Lafourche Parish, La. 3 Nov 04 2004 ********************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ********************************************** NOTES: 1. The date preceding the obituary is the date of posting on the WWW, not the date of death. ================================ October 28. 2004 12:00AM Warall Whipple Warall James Ned Whipple, 81, a native and resident of Bourg, died Oct. 27, 2004. Visitation will be 7 to 9 p.m. today and 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday at Chauvin Funeral Home. A Mass of Christian burial will be celebrated at 1 p.m. Friday at St. Ann Catholic Church, with burial at the church cemetery. He is survived by his wife, Margaret Hebert Whipple of Bourg; sons, Christopher M. and Stuart J. Whipple; daughter, Melanie M. Whipple; brother, Marcel Whipple; sisters, Goldie W. Jouandot and Mazie W. McCullough; and one grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents, Mark McColl Whipple and Clothild Walker Whipple; brothers, Max and Leonard Whipple; sister, Mariel W. Bergeron. He was a retired consulting petroleum geologist who served for 44 years. He attended LSU for four years, was a member of the New Orleans Geological Society and Petroleum Club of New Orleans. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II. He was a parishioner of St. Ann Catholic Church. Chauvin Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.