Whipple Database
Database of the Whipple One-Name Study (WONS)
Reed Whipple Best
1918 - 2005 (87 years)-
Name Reed Whipple Best Birth 6 Apr 1918 Shepherd, Isabella Michigan Gender Male Death 21 Dec 2005 Fruitport, Muskegon, Michigan Burial Sullivan Township Cemetery, Ravenna, Muskegon, Michigan Person ID I131680 Whipple Descendants Last Modified 12 Sep 2024
Father Lorin Best, b. 23 May 1897 d. Sep 1977, prob, Mission, Hidalgo, Texas (Age 80 years) Mother Hildred Rose Whipple, b. 16 May 1899 d. 1942 (Age 42 years) Marriage 25 May 1916 Family ID F13597 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Donna Jean "Peg" Shavalier, b. 28 Mar 1928, Sullivan, Muskegon, Michigan d. 12 Jul 2013, Fruitport, Muskegon, Michigan (Age 85 years) Marriage 7 Sep 1946 Sullivan, Muskegon, Michigan Children 1. Private 2. Private 3. Private Family ID F65206 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 21 Jan 2010. Cites Social Security Death Index: "Reed W. Best {son of 26350} b. 6 Apr 1918 d. 21 Dec 2005 prob. Fruitport, Muskegon, MI (last residence). He was a WWII veteran (PFC US Army) and is bur. in Sullivan Twp Cemetery in Muskegon, MI."
!SOURCE: Email from Matthew O. Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple Website, 5 Apr 2017. Cites 1920 census (gives state of birth).
!SOURCE: Email from Matt Kingsley (email hidden) to the Whipple One-Name Study, 12 Sep 2024. Adds birth place, citing https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6KQJ-N9ZS
!SOURCE: Find a Grave web site memorial 54778945, cited 12 Sep 2024.
- !SOURCE: Email from N. Combs to Weldon Whipple, 21 Jan 2010. Cites Social Security Death Index: "Reed W. Best {son of 26350} b. 6 Apr 1918 d. 21 Dec 2005 prob. Fruitport, Muskegon, MI (last residence). He was a WWII veteran (PFC US Army) and is bur. in Sullivan Twp Cemetery in Muskegon, MI."