YOUNGSTOWN - Services for Richard G. Whipple, a retired application engineer. will be conducted at IO a.m. Tuesday in the Hardison Funeral Home, North Fourth and Ridge streets; Lewiston. Burial will be in Oakland Rural Cemetery.
Whipple. 63, of Brentwood Drive, died Friday (Feb. 28, 1992) in North Florida Regional Medical Center, Gainesville, Fla.
A native of St. Louis, he moved to Youngstown 25 years ago. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and worked as a manager of application engineering for the Super Abrasive Division of the Carborundum Co. in Niagara Falls for 28 years.
He also was a consultant in application engineering for Bay State, a division of Dresser Industries, and was an application engineer for the American Diamond Tool Co. of Buffalo for nine years until he retired in 1989.
Whipple was a life member of the Alumni Association of the University of Missouri and was a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Diamond Wheel Manufacturing Institute and ASM international, a material information society.
He served in the Marine Corps and the Army and was a member of American Legion Lewiston Post 1083.
Survivors include his wife, the former Bernice Ciszek; four daughters. Susan Childress of Columbus. Ohio, Kathryn Ellison of Richwood, Ky., Robin Loup of Northville, Mich. and Ann Whipple of Buffalo; a stepson, Richard Spendio of New York City; a brother, William Whipple of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and three grandchildren.
His first wife, the former M. Elinor Spader, died in 1982.
YOUNGSTOWN - Services for Richard G. Whipple, a retired application engineer. will be conducted at IO a.m. Tuesday in the Hardison Funeral Home, North Fourth and Ridge streets; Lewiston. Burial will be in Oakland Rural Cemetery.
Whipple. 63, of Brentwood Drive, died Friday (Feb. 28, 1992) in North Florida Regional Medical Center, Gainesville, Fla.
A native of St. Louis, he moved to Youngstown 25 years ago. He received a degree in electrical engineering from the University of Missouri and worked as a manager of application engineering for the Super Abrasive Division of the Carborundum Co. in Niagara Falls for 28 years.
He also was a consultant in application engineering for Bay State, a division of Dresser Industries, and was an application engineer for the American Diamond Tool Co. of Buffalo for nine years until he retired in 1989.
Whipple was a life member of the Alumni Association of the University of Missouri and was a member of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers, the Diamond Wheel Manufacturing Institute and ASM international, a material information society.
He served in the Marine Corps and the Army and was a member of American Legion Lewiston Post 1083.
Survivors include his wife, the former Bernice Ciszek; four daughters. Susan Childress of Columbus. Ohio, Kathryn Ellison of Richwood, Ky., Robin Loup of Northville, Mich. and Ann Whipple of Buffalo; a stepson, Richard Spendio of New York City; a brother, William Whipple of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and three grandchildren.
His first wife, the former M. Elinor Spader, died in 1982.
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