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_Frank William Jones _|
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|--Whipple "Whip" Van Ness Jones
| (1909 - 2001)
| _Stephen Whipple ____+
| | (.... - 1813) m 1760
| _Oliver Whipple _____|_Zilpha Angell ______
| | (1772 - 1855) m 1796 (1742 - 1830)
| _Asa Hatch Whipple _______|
| | (1799 - 1874) m 1840 |
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| | |_Polly Hatch ________|_Lucy Warner ________
| | (1773 - 1842) m 1796
| _Abram Olin Whipple ________|
| | (1844 - 1906) m 1877 |
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| | | | (1712 - 1797) m 1734
| | | _Gideon Olin ________|_Susanna Peirce _____
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| | |_Esther Olin _____________|
| | (1802 - 1883) m 1840 |
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|_Esther Olin Whipple _|
(1884 - 1977) m 1907 |
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(1827 - 1899) m 1848 |
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!SOURCE: GEDCOM file from Whipple Van Ness Jones, Jr., to the Whipple Website, 10 Nov 1999. Cites the work of his son, Bruce McCulloch Jones.
!OBITUARY:
Whipple "Whip" Van Ness Jones, 91, of Las Vegas, NV died June 29, 2001, in Tallahassee, FL.Funeral services will be held in Aspen, Colorado July 10, 2001 at 2:00 PM at Christ Episcopal Church (536 West North Street) with burial to follow. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated July 20, 2001 at 11:00 AM at St. John's Episcopal Church, 211 North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Christ Episcopal Church, Aspen, Colorado or St. John's Episcopal Church, Tallahassee, Florida.
Mr. Jones was born November 8, 1909 in Oconomowoc, Wisconsin, the son of Frank and Esther (Whipple) Jones. He was a long time businessman in Aspen, Colorado, where, in 1958, he developed and operated the internationally renowned Aspen Highlands ski area. In 1992, after the longest continuous ownership of any ski area in Colorado Mr. Jones donated Aspen Highlands to his Alma Mater, Harvard University. He also built and operated The Smuggler, one of Aspen's first ski lodges.
In 1998 he was inducted into the Aspen Hall of Fame and in October, 2000, he was inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame. Following his induction into the Aspen Hall of Fame a ski run at Aspen Highlands was renamed "Whip's Veneration" to honor the founder of the ski area.
Before World War II, Mr. Jones was a Captain in the Missouri State Guard and worked as a Trust Officer at St. Louis Union Trust, Co.. At the outbreak of the war Mr. Jones transferred to the Army Air Corps and rose to the rank of Lt. Col.
An avid sports enthusiast, Mr. Jones was the Aspen men's singles tennis champion in the t60's as well as a skilled hunter, fisherman and trap shooter. In recent years the game of golf occupied much of Mr. Jones' leisure time and he continued playing almost up to the time of his death.
Mr. Jones was a member of Kappa Sigma Fraternity, The St. Louis Country Club, The Maroon Creek Club in Aspen and Spanish Trails in Las Vegas. Mr. Jones was a John Harvard Fellow with Harvard University and a Paul Harris Fellow with Rotary International and a member of Christ Episcopal Church, Aspen.
Mr. Jones is survived by four sons, Richard McCulloch Jones of Boca Raton, Florida, Whipple Van Ness Jones, Jr. of Tallahassee, Florida, Carey Etnier Jones of Carbondale, Colorado and Andrew Doremus of Aspen, Colorado; two daughters Diane Carroll Blow of Greenwich, Connecticut and Melanie Mathilde Roseberry of Dillon Beach, CA his daughter Daphne Van Ness Jones predeceased him; 20 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
(Beggs Funeral Homes Apalachee Parkway Chapel, Tallahassee, Florida and Farnum Funeral Home, Glenwood Springs, Colorado)
RIN 35611. Quick link to this page: https://genweb.whipple.org/35611
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