Ralph Eugene Whiting

• GIVN: Ralph Eugene
• SURN: Whiting¹²
• Sex: M
• Born: 19 May 1891 in Mapleton, Utah, Utah, United States²
• Died: 14 Feb 1979 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
• Buried: 19 Feb 1979 in Mesa, Maricopa, Arizona, United States
• AFN: 3HDL-QM³
• _UID: 6D1B1BAAB1C5470C8591F96F813D834C21A3
• Baptised LDS: 2 Jul 1899 4 Oct 1911
• TEMP: SLAKE BIC
• Record last updated: 30 Nov 2013
• TIME: 11:39
• Notes:

  RALPH EUGENE WHITING, fifth child of Edwin Marion Whiting and Anna Maria Isaacson was born in Mapleton, Utah, May 19, 1891. When he was nine years old his family moved to Arizona and Ralph drove a team of horses all the way. He went to school in St. Johns, Arizona. He graduated from the eighth grade and then went one year in the academy.
  
  He married Zella Berry when he was nineteen years old and then married Jane Allison Darwin in 1928. In 1929 he went on a two year mission to Canada. He married Nellie Priestley in 1933 in the temple as he had his first two marriages.
  
  He was called on a stake mission from 1937-39. In 1940 he was called as Stake Sunday School Superintendant of the Snowflake Stake. In 1948 he moved his family to Mesa, Arizona. In 1949 they moved to Kanab, Utah and after three years moved back to Mesa.
  
  He was on the High Council in Kanab. And in Mesa he was a guide on the Temple grounds for eleven years.
  
  In 1963 Ralph moved with his family to Grand Junction, Colorado where he is presently serving on the High Council.
  
  All of his children have been married in the temple and his only married grandchild as well. He has twenty-one grandchildren and one great grandchild.
  
  TRIBUTE BY ARTHUR C. WHITING
  
  Of all the children of Edwin and Anna Maria, Uncle Ralph was one of the most colorful. He demonstrated his temper at the early age of four when he would run out into the street and take off his pants to show his wrath. As a young man he was an athlete and expert horseman. He won bronc riding events, champion calf roping at Springerville and he won the old Mexican chicken pull so regularly that they discontinued the event at St. Johns after several years.
  
  His boxing career was most exciting to his many fans in Apache County. To their great pleasure he whipped such notable characterss as Old Big Boy, the 350 pound giant Mexican, Chimao, the bragging sailor, champ Al Wright, and the negro in McNary, that never even got in the ring.
  
  He has always loved and been loved by the children in the family and they always think of him as their loving Uncle.