Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Whipple, Harry E. 1968 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Sandy Heintzelman sheintz@iserv.net May 29, 2010, 11:29 am Ionia Daily Sentinel-Standard, 29 Jul & 1 Aug 1968 Harry E. Whipple, 80, of 334 East Lincoln, died Saturday evening shortly after admittance to Ionia County Memorial hospital. He was born in Mecosta county, August 14, 1887, the son of Fred and Mary J. Simmons Whipple. October 21, 1928 he was married to Bernice Rossman and later December 3, 1935 to Bessie Thayer Bluemly, who survives. He lived most of his life in Orleans and after retirement from farming in Easton township moved to Ionia where he was employed as an electrician at Weber Electric. He was a member of First Christian church and Masonic lodge. Besides his wife, Bessie, he leaves three daughters, Mrs. E. K. McKellar of Ft. Collins, Colo, Mrs. R. Wayne Dreger of Arlington Heights, Ill., and Avis Bluemly of San Francisco, Calf.; four granddaughters and one great grandson. Funeral services will be Tuesday at 2 p.m. at Stone-Kauffman funeral home with Rev. Theodore Forbes officiating. Interment will be at Otisco cemetery. A memorial has been established for Bethany circle of First Christian church. ----- Rev. Theodore Forbes of First Christian church officiated at funeral services Tuesday for Harry E. Whipple who died Saturday. Bearers were R. Wayne Dreger, Dwight Whipple, Sr., Dwight Whipple, Jr., William Bodine, Robert Montgomery and Frank Lambert. Interment was at Otisco cemetery. Attending from out of town were Mr. and Mrs. R. Wayne Dreger, Candace and Gretchen of Arlington Heights, Ill.; Mr. and Mrs. William Bodine, Kalamazoo; Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Whipple, Jr., Grand Rapids; Mrs. Gerald Parker and Lyle Simmons of Detroit; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lambert, Constantia, N. Y.; Mr. and Mrs. Dan Denton, Ann Arbor; Mr. and Mrs. Ross Jolland, Dearborn; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Sherwood, Carson City; Mrs. Esther Dietrick, Shepardsville; Mrs. Mabel Dietrick, Palo; Mrs. Gerald Finney, Ovid; Mrs. Roland Pierson, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Mr. and Mrs. Myrne Nichols, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Petersen and Mrs. Carroll Smith of Greenville; Mrs. Olive Peterson, of Brooklyn; Mr. and Mrs. Lyle Bennett, Hubbardston; Mrs. Douglas Jenks, Floyd Jenks and Mrs. Earl Nash of Belding. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/w/whipple5038nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/mifiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb