Lola Whittaker

Lola Chamberlain Whittaker

KAYSVILLE – Lola Chamberlain Whittaker died Thursday, October 2, 2014. She was born March 13, 1921, in Arco, ID, to Ira LeGrand Chamberlain and Dora Frances Moncur Chamberlain. As the second child and oldest daughter in a family of 13 children, she learned early to enjoy children and work hard. She was raised in Rupert, ID, near her maternal grandparents and extended family.

Lola loved school, particularly English and history, and was an avid reader and an excellent storyteller. During the summer breaks from school her father and the children made a sought-after work crew thinning and hoeing beets and potatoes. As an adult she raised a large garden and was known for growing raspberries.

After high school she attended a vocational college in Weiser, ID, where she learned secretarial skills. She married Doyle Cash McCutcheon on March 1, 1942, and lived briefly in Long Beach, CA and Amarillo, TX. Doyle was killed in action in World War II.

When the war was over and the soldiers came home Lola got reacquainted with Don LeRoy Whittaker and they were married on June 5, 1946, in the Salt Lake Temple. They lived in Rupert and then moved to Kaysville, UT, in 1952.

Lola was always a room mother for one of her children’s school classes. She gave church service in Primary, MIA and Relief Society including Relief Society President.

Don and Lola belonged to a social dance group. Lola also belonged to the neighborhood birthday club and the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers.

She could sew anything from wedding dresses to costumes and everyone gathered at her house for wonderful food. Trick-or-treaters came every year from all over town for her home-made doughnuts.

Lola was widowed for the second time when Don died in 1973. Both times she had young children to raise. Missing her now are her seven children and their spouses: Patricia & Kenneth Higbee, Provo; Kent & Jennifer Whittaker, Kaysville; Scott & Jan Whittaker, Bountiful; Lynn & Mary Beth Whittaker, Salt Lake; Julie & Dean Curtis, Washington Terrace; Mark & Beth Whittaker and Jennifer & Douglas Young, Kaysville; along with her 29 grandchildren and 36 great-grandchildren.

She is also survived by her siblings: Marjorie Chamberlain, Doris Hunsaker, Marie & Duane Trebilcock, Rex & Lou Chamberlain, Jerry & Buakam Chamberlain, and by her sister-in-law Zelma Peterman. She was preceded in death by her grandson, Deven Whittaker and by her brothers: Jack, Verl, Vern, Clyde, Lawrence, Marion and Richard Chamberlain.

For the last nine months, Lola has lived at Pheasant View Assisted Living. Her family especially appreciates the kind care of the workers there. They also thank Hospice For Utah.

Funeral services will be held Monday, October 6, 2014 at 11 a.m. at the Kaysville 13 ^th Ward, 875 E. 200 North, Kaysville, UT. Friends may visit with family on Sunday, October 5 from 5 to 7 p.m. at Lindquist’s Kaysville Mortuary, 400 North Main, and Monday at the church from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. preceding the service. Interment will be at the Kaysville City Cemetery.