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1902 - 1991 (89 years)

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Name Vern George Whipple

Birth 10 Jan 1902 Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States

Gender Male

Census 1910 Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States

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Ln	Hhold	Given	Surname	Relation	Gender	Race	BirthDate	Age	Status	Years Married	Children Born/Living	BirthPlace	BirthPlace of Father	BirthPlace of Mother	Immigration Year	Occupation
22	304	Mary A	Whipple	Head	Female	White	abt 1866	44	Widowed	0		Germany	Germany	Germany	1870
23	304	Amy	Whipple	Daughter	Female	White	abt 1891	19	Single	0		Utah	Utah	Germany
24	304	Delilah	Whipple	Daughter	Female	White	abt 1894	16	Single	0		Utah	Utah	Germany
25	304	Leon	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1900	10	Single	0		Utah	Utah	Germany
26	304	Vern	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1902	8	Single	0		Utah	Utah	Germany
27	304	Kenneth	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1905	5	Single	0		Utah	Utah	Germany

Transcript ID is dbid=7884&iid=4454951_00692

Census 1920 Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States

Ln	Hhold	Given	Surname	Relation	Gender	Race	BirthDate	Age	Status	BirthPlace	BirthPlace of Father	BirthPlace of Mother	Immigration Year
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5	10	Mary	Whipple	Head	Female	White	abt 1866	54	Widowed	Germany	Germany	Germany	1870
6	10	Leon	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1900	20	Single	Utah	Utah	Germany
7	10	Verne	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1903	17	Single	Utah	Utah	Germany
8	10	Kenneth	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1905	15	Single	Utah	Utah	Germany
9	10	Gottlieb	Beck	Father	Male	White	abt 1837	83	Widowed	Germany	Germany	Germany	1869

Roll: T625_186 Transcript ID is dbid=6061&iid=4390822_00330

Census 1930 Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States

Ln	Hhold	Given	Surname	Relation	Gender	Race	BirthDate	Age	BirthPlace	BirthPlace of Father	BirthPlace of Mother
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10	7335	Mary	Whipple	Head	Female	White	abt 1866	64	Germany	Germany	Germany
11	7335	Vern	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1902	28	Utah	Utah	Germany
12	7335	Kenneth	Whipple	Son	Male	White	abt 1905	25	Utah	Utah	Germany

Transcript ID is dbid=6224&iid=4547821_00219

Initiatory (LDS) 1 Dec 1947 SLAKE

FamilySearch ID KWC2-Y5B

Death 9 May 1991 Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States

Burial 13 May 1991 Lehi City Cemetery, Utah, Utah, United States

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Last Modified 25 Feb 2024

Father	Edson Whipple, b. 10 Oct 1853, Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 26 Feb 1909, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 55 years)
Mother	Mary Ann Beck, b. 13 Jun 1865, Aichelberg, Göppingen, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland d. 16 Jan 1937, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 71 years)
Marriage	9 Dec 1880	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Family ID	F8720	Group Sheet \| Family Chart

Family	Lexia Bateman, b. 5 Aug 1903, Murray, Salt Lake, Utah, United States d. 25 Jul 1994, Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States (Age 90 years)
Marriage	1 Dec 1947	Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
Family ID	F9147	Group Sheet \| Family Chart
Last Modified	5 May 2024

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	Birth - 10 Jan 1902 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Census - 1910 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Census - 1920 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Census - 1930 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Initiatory (LDS) - 1 Dec 1947 - SLAKE
	Marriage - 1 Dec 1947 - Salt Lake City, Salt Lake, Utah, United States
	Death - 9 May 1991 - Lehi, Utah, Utah, United States
	Burial - 13 May 1991 - Lehi City Cemetery, Utah, Utah, United States

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Vern George Whipple, an Autobiography
1902-1991

I was born in Lehi, Utah, the ninth Child of Edson and Mary Beck Whipp l e 10 January 1902. In my early life I had the usual amount of accid e n t s and sicknesses. I cut myself, bruised myself, broke my arm an d c u t m y trigger finger off. I lost my finger in the cogs of the famil y wa s hin g machine. I was always daring. As my sister, Delilah, was tur ni n g th e machine, I stuck my finger near the cogs thinking she would s hu s h me aw ay. But she didn’t see me and the cogs grabbed my finger an d pu l led it i n. I caught every contagious disease as they came along . meas l es, mumps, chicken pox, etc., I’ve had them all. With all the sc ho o l I missed fr om these sicknesses, I wasn’t held back for which I wa s a lw ays thankful.
The loss of my finger wasn’t much of a handicap, however, except in pl a y i ng marbles. I couldn’t shoot straight. When the older people wou l d s e e my finger, they would tell me, “There is one consolation, you w il l ne ve r have to go in the Army”. Well, I Didn’t, but later joined th e N avy. W hen I was seven our home was saddened by the sickness and deat h o f o ur fa ther. He passed away 26 February 1909 at the age of 56. Th e old e r Child ren were already working. My mother worked to support u s young e r ones an d as we became old enough, we also worked to help sup port our se lves. I w orked on the farm and later in the mines and othe r places s o t hat I coul d buy my clothes and go to school in the winter .
In my Childhood and school days we had lots of fun. I had my brothe r s a n d there were so many boys in the neighborhood, the Merrills, Kirk ha ms, Gu dmundsens, Fotheringhams, Crabbs and many others. We all love d t o r oam t he fields and hills. this was always fun for me and I stil l lov e t he gre at out-of-doors, roaming the hills, hunting and fishing . Had m y f ather l ived, I am sure we would have enjoyed doing these thi ngs toge ther. He, l ike many Lehi men, did considerable mining and prosp ecting i n th e hills a nd mountains near Lehi.
All through my younger life I was what is known as painfully bashfu l . W h en I was in the fifth grade they had double seats. The boys sat t og eth e r and the girls together. One day at the beginning of class Mis s Ha rwo o d announced, to my horror, that she was going to seat the boy s wit h th e g irls. I though of leaving the room and not coming back, bu t on s econ d th ought I knew this wouldn’t do. There was just no escape . When s h e got t o me, who did she seat me with? Why, the prettiest gir l in th e r oom. I was scared to death and reluctantly I took my books an d chang e d seat s. The next day, to make things worse, Miss Harwood, for m her de s k said, “Lela, why don’t you move over and give Vern more room , he is h a lfway o ut in the aisle”. Lela was very nice and very friendl y, however . She di d much to relieve my bashfulness during the remainde r of the y e ar. I wa s still a long ways from being cured. At 16 I start ed goin g t o dances. My sister taught me how, then I got up enough coura ge to a s k the othe r girls. I loved to dance and went to all of the m I could . I was neve r known to be forward but wasn’t painfully bashfu l anymore.
I attended grade school and high school and then went to one yea r a t t h e University of Utah, but I couldn’t make enough money during t he s umm e r to take me thru the next school year, so I was forced to qui t . A fe w y ears later when I had saved enough money, I went to Chicag o an d gradu ate d from an Electrical Trade School. I worked there for tw o yea rs gett in g experience in my trade. I came back to Utah and in 193 7 my g ood mot he r passed away at the age of 72. I have always been grat eful fo r her m an y sacrifices for us. She taught us to honor the priest hood an d that w e s hould keep the commandments that our Father in Heave n has gi ven us.
I worked for a while as an operator in the Lehi Municipal Power Plan t . A t the beginning of World War II, I went to the Small Arms Plan t i n S alt L ake as an Electrician. In September of 1942 I enlisted in t he N avy. Whe n I went in for my physical examination I went through th e whol e p roces s without them noticing my trigger finger until I was t o be fin gerp rinted. I asked the man which finger he wanted me to use. H e becam e ex cited a nd wanted to know how I got through. He told me to w ait an d wen t out t o find out about it. He soon came back and said he t hough t it wo uld be a lright. I was sure it would be.
I went through boot training at Farragut, Idaho, then was sent to Ma r e I s land, California. While awaiting a ship to be assigned to I ser v e d a s a shore patrolman in San Francisco. We had to patrol the toug h se c tio n of the City. It was a good experience for me, but I didn’t l ik e i t muc h.
I was assigned to a large submarine tender. We went to the South Pac i f i c where I served 18 months and during this time had the privileg e o f vi si ting many of the beautiful island of that region. I was disch arge d i n Oc tober 1945.
I married Lexia Bateman in the Salt Lake Temple, 1 December 1947.

Note: Vern George Whipple died on 9 May 1991 in Lehi, Utah, Utah . H i s s weetheart, Lexia Bateman Whipple died 25th of July 1994. They h a d n o chi ldren.