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Arthur F. Whittemore

Posted 2009-12-05 by Pat Wilson
Arthur F. Whittemore, 70, of Surprise, Ariz., formerly of Marlboro, Massachusetts, died Monday (Feb. 14, 1994) at home after a long illness.

He leaves his wife of 46 years, Helen (Finan) Whittemore; four sons, Francis, Glen, Alan and Paul Whittemore; two daughters, Linda Graffam and Jean Mueller; and 15 grandchildren. He was born in Marlboro, son of Francis and Florence (Johnson) Whittemore, and lived there most of his life. He moved to Arizona in 1986. He was a 1943 graduate of Marlboro High School. He was a World War II Army Air Force veteran.

Mr. Whittemore was an airplane mechanic at Hanscomb Air Force Base in Bedford for 34 years, retiring in 1979. He was a member of Woodville Baptist Church, Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 638, the Marlboro Disabled American Veterans, the United Bretheren Lodge of Masons, the Houghton Royal Arch Chapter, the Trinity Commandery Knight Temple, Aleppo Temple Shrine of Boston and the El Zaribah Temple Shrine of Phoenix, Ariz.

Funeral services Friday, Feb. 18, 1994, in Sullivan-Fitzgerald Funeral Home, 378 Lincoln St. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery. Memorial donations may be made to Clothe-A-Child Fund, care of El Zaribah Temple, 552 North 40th St., Phoenix, Ariz., 85008, or Home Health Care Foundation (Cigna Hospice) 7600 N. 15th St. 185, Phoenix, Ariz., 85020, or the United Brethren Lodge of Masons Scholarship Fund, Marlboro 01752.

Arizona Republic February 16, 1994




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