Lois J. (Claude) WHIPPLE-DAVIS

WHIPPLE-DAVIS, WHIPPLE, DAVIS, CLAUDE, MASON, SAVOY, FABER, BENNETT, MOORE, THOMPSON

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 3/21/2015 at 14:07:42

December 6, 1944 --- March 11, 2015

BRITT, IA -- Lois J. "Misty" Whipple-Davis, age 70, most recently a resident of Eagle Lake, rural Britt, and formerly of Belmond, died Wednesday, March 11, 2015, at Hancock Memorial Hospital, Britt, after a courageous battle with cancer with her loving family at her side. Funeral services will be held Monday, March 16, 2015, 10:30 a.m., at Belmond United Methodist Church, 1031 First St. S.E., Belmond. Burial will be in the Belmond Cemetery. The Rev. Cindy Morris and Pastor Haddon Anderson will be officiating. Visitation will be Sunday at the Andrews Funeral Home, 516 First St. S.E., Belmond, from 4 to 7 p.m. and continues one hour prior to the funeral at church Monday. Memorial or other expressions of sympathy may be directed to Lois's family.

Lois Claude, the daughter of Albert and Erma (Mason) Claude was born Dec. 6, 1944, at Clarion. She attended Clarion school and graduated from Clarion High School in the spring of 1963. In her earlier adolescent years she enjoyed swimming. She also enjoyed roller skating, spending many occasions at the Lake Cornelia Roller Rink. Bowling was another of her many past times.

Lois was married at the Church of Christ, Clarion, to Robert (Bob) Whipple, a sailor from Belmond, on June 8, following her graduation, and spent two years at Key West, Florida, and Washington, D.C., during his military tenure. Following Bob's honorable discharge in June 1965, the couple moved to Nevada, Iowa, where they lived for a short period before moving to Britt, where they raised their children, Rob, Roxanne, and Rick.

While Bob spent 37 years of his life in the electric and power industry, Lois was a devoted wife and loving and nurturing mother. She had been employed in her earlier years as a waitress at various restaurants in her years in Clarion and Britt. Her life long career focused in the world of sales. Her efficient and persuasive personality were well fit for her chosen vocations. For a number of years she was employed in the sales department for Britt Tech Corporation. Lois and Bob had owned and operated "Whipple's Sight and Sound", and electronics and T.V. sales and service store in Britt for a time.

Bob and Lois were very active and devoted to their children and grandchildren and as the years went by spent countless and precious hours and times traveling with them on various camping adventures many of which leave them with fond and humor filled special recollections of the speed bumps along the way. The couple cherished times spent spectating and cheering on their children and grandkids in whatever extra-curricular activities they participated in over the years often times roaming rapidly from one event to the next in support of them all.

Lois and Bob shared a love for golf and spent many years enjoying this hobby together. They served on the Britt Country Club Board and assisted in various roles. Those who had the privilege of playing around of golf with Lois would often find out that she only really needed her two clubs in the bag; her hybrid and her famous "Texas Wedge" Putter, which she would use from nearly anywhere on the course.

The Whipples moved to Belmond from Britt in 2001 after family was grown and to be near Bob's family. Lois was employed with PSI-Printing Services Inc. as a sales lady. Again her gift for sales brought her and the company much success. Misty had spent more recent years even up to the near the end of her life working in sales for FHP-Farm and Home Publishing and CDI-City Directory Inc., another entity associated with PSI. The two of them had shared a bit of their entrepreneurial spirit with the region when they opened up "Double Dip" Ice Cream Parlor in downtown Belmond and eventually purchased a van they converted to an ice cream truck and spent a number of years selling their treats and numerous town functions, fairs, and shows throughout the area. They eventually sold the business 2009 and it still operates today.

Despite being a very busy lady, Lois gave of her time and talents in earlier years as a member of the Jaycee's in Britt and in later years was active alongside Bob helping at the Belmond Lions Club Toy Show and participation in various activities of the Belmond Area Chamber of Commerce. She had served as a Sunday School teacher at the Methodist Church in Britt.

Lois's passions and interests were many. She loved a good shopping trip and garage sales to acquire things for family and friends. She loved to search for the bargain of the day. Her family fondly reflects on Lois' Annual Christmas Family Auctions. She looked forward to those camping excursions to Adventureland and Stone Creek State Park. She had a lifelong love of music with her favorite being the oldies of the 1950-60s. She had shared this loved with her family by attending the Buddy Holly Annual Winter Dance Party and had even taken her grandchildren to it at various times.

Following Bob's passing on Nov. 30, 2010, Lois continued to reside in Belmond and work. She later met Lynn Davis and the two were married in September 2013. They made their cozy cabin home at Eagle Lake, where the two enjoyed a brief but wonderful time together. Their precious and short time together was dotted with numerous health crises for Lois, but neither gave up the goal of a long future together. Lois and Lynn started their own jewelry business, making many wonderful one of a kind creations together out of silverware. They had taken their wares to many various arts and crafts shows around the area and of course Lois talent for sales was an asset to the enterprise. Their time together brought another new adventure to Lois life story as she learned to enjoy the wonders of nature at the Lake and had even recently learned to shoot a rifle for the first time in her life with a great deal of marksmanship.

This past winter her health issues arose again and eventually took her life from her and her loving family and new family of Lynn's. Even as her health deteriorated her friendly demeanor, zest for life, strong willed personality and the love of family and friends served her life journey well.

Her memory will live on in the hearts and minds of her husband, Lynn Davis, Eagle Lake; children Rob (Deb) Whipple, Baltic, S.D, Roxanne (Steve) Savoy, Britt, and Rick (Dodi) Whipple, Garner; eight grandchildren: Brookelyn and Jordan Savoy, Britt; Dane, Max and Payton Whipple, Garner; Megan (Ryan) and great grandson Grant Faber, Crooks, S.D.; Daniel, Molly and Marissa Whipple, Baltic, S.D.; a sister, Alberta Jean (Tom) Bennett, Ottosen; brother, Ronald (Eileen) Claude, Ankeny; and several nieces, nephews, cousins and countless friends; a sister-in-law, Kathy (Joe) Moore, Plymouth; and a brother-in-law, Dennis (Lori) Whipple, Riverton, Utah. Also surviving are her step children, Luke Davis (Bridget) and their son, Killion, Britt; Zach Davis, Ankeny, and Hannah Davis, Clear Lake. She was preceded in death by her parents, maternal and paternal grandparents, first husband Robert (Bob) Whipple, and her in-laws, Gerald "Red" and Anita (Thompson) Whipple.

Andrews Funeral Home -- Belmond, Iowa

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