Gravestone of Cyrenius A. "Rene" and Martha M. (Halupnik) Whipple
(Submitted 9/19/2009 by Dale Halupnik)
_Benjamin Whipple ___+
| (1727 - 1806) m 1749
_Nehemiah Whipple ___|_Hepzebah Crosby ____
| (1750 - 1809) m 1776 (1727 - 1797)
_Enoch Whipple ______|
| (1788 - 1857) m 1815|
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| (1752 - 1812) m 1776
_Cyrenius Thomas Whipple _|
| (1827 - 1900) m 1856 |
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| (1798 - 1865) m 1815|
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_Selmon Thomas "Sell" Whipple _|
| (1861 - 1912) m 1885 |
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|--Cyrenius Albert "Rene" Whipple
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| _Albert Thornton Edwards _|
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|_Anna C. Edwards ______________|
(1866 - 1948) m 1885 |
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|_Martha Jane Brewer ______|
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!SOURCE: Email from Dale Halupnik (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 4 Jun 2006. Cites Obituary of Rene (i.e. Cyrenius) Whipple in the Traer (Iowa) Star-Clipper, December, 1950:
Rene Whipple Dies of Stroke At Age of 42
Popular Traerite Leaves
Wife and Two Children;
Funeral Here TomorrowRene Whipple, 42, a popular resiwdent of the Traer community for 15 years, died of a cerebral hemorrhage early Wednesday morning at St. Francis hospital in Waterloo. He had been suffering from high blood preswsure for some time.
Mr. and Mrs. Whipple had gone shopping in Waterloo Tuesday evewning. On the way to the city, Mr. Whipple had complained about a pain in his right foot. They shopped for a while and left for home early because Mr. Whipple was feeling Ill. On the way home Mr. Whipple comwplained about a numbness in his right side. A short time later he suffered a severe stroke. On arrival in Traer, he was put into an ambulance and rushed to St. Francis Hospital, arriving there about midnight. A local doctor was called to St. Francis about 2 or 3 a.m., but little could be done.
Rene Whipple was born in Vinton May 20, 1908, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. T. Whipple. His father died when Rene was about 3 years old. He atwtended school at Vinton, graduating from the high school in 1929. He was a star in football and basketball, and was a member of the Vinton high school cage team which finished third place in the 1927 state tournament. After graduating from high school, Rene took a short military training course at Fort Snelling, Minn. He worked for a while in a Vinton shoe store and later in the Gamble store here. Later he worked for the John Deere Company in Waterloo and played basketball with the John Deere team.
Mr. Whipple came to Traer in 1935 to manage the Gamble agency store for two years for a Vinton man who owned the business. Then he fulfilled a lifelong dream of sailing around the world by taking a job as a stewward aboard an ocean liner. He also crossed the Pacific several times. Returning to Traer In 1938 he bought the Please-U cafe business from James Fay. On July 6, 1938, Rena married Martha Halupnik at the Methodist parsonage at Clear Lake, Ia. Two children, Judith Ann, 11, and Robert Mark, 2, were born to them.
In 1943, Mr. Whipple sold the Please-U cafe to Amelia Claussen, and took a job with the Boettcher Furniture company. During and for a time after the last war, he was a district salesman for the Curtis Candy Company in central Iowa for five years. In January 1950, he bewcame a salesman for the Cavalier Motor Company.
Rene was well known and univerwsally liked in the Traer community. He had been coach of the Kubik wFinch post, American Legions great basketball team since it was organized three years ago, and was a director of the Traer Softball aswsociation for over ten years. He was also a member of the Traer Fire Dewpartment for three years.
Besides his wife and children, Mr. Whipple is survived by five brothers. Carl Whipple, of Shellsburg; Henry and Bill, of Vinton; Edward, of Dunkerton; and Eugene, of Freewater, Ore.: and five sisters, Mrs. Howward Catlin, of Jesup, Ia.; Mrs. Guy Britt, Mrs. Glenn Gordon and Mrs. Lyle Galaher. of Vinton: and Mrs. Don Furls, of Belmond, Ia. Preceding him in death were his father and mother, and a brother, the latter of Springville, Ia.
Funeral services will be at 2 p. m. Saturday at the Traer Methodist Church with the Rev. Paul Somerville officiating. Dorothy Vanicek and Nancy States will sing, with Charwlotte Vanicek at the organ. Mrs. Eugene Crouse and Mrs. Walter Westphalen will be In charge of flowers. Pallbearers will be George Cavalier Jr., Oren Finch, Eugene Crouse, David W. Wilson, Robert Wignall and Jack Haack. Interment will be in Buckingham Cemetery.
!DEATH: In St. Francis Hospital, Waterloo, Black Hawk, IA. --D. Halupnik
!SOURCE: Blaine Whipple, 15 Generations of Whipples: Descendants of Matthew Whipple of Ipswich, Massachusetts, Abt 1590-1647: An American Story (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 2007), 2:G750, 3:G908.
Gravestone of Cyrenius A. "Rene" and Martha M. (Halupnik) Whipple |
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(Submitted 9/19/2009 by Dale Halupnik) |
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