Memorial services for Mrs. Ila Ripple Whitaker, age 90 of White Bluff, TN w ill be conducted Thursday October 31, 2013 at 3:00 PM from the Memorial Crematory Chapel. Burial will follow in the Dickson County Memorial Gardens. Services were under the direction of the Taylor Funeral Home.
Mrs. Whitaker died Monday October 28, 2013 at Horizon Medical Center. Born in Biloxi, MS she was the daughter of the late Meradith Jeremiah Mann Busby and Beatrice McArren Busby and was preceded in death by her husband, Richard Ward Whitaker, Sr. and her son, Robert Edwin Whitaker. Mrs. Whitaker was a devoted Wife, Mother and Grandmother and was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Survivors include her sons, Jerry Whitaker (Tonya) of Burns, Richard Ward Whitaker, Jr. (Shelia) of Madisonville, KY, Gene Whitaker (Betty) White Bluff; daughters, Alvia Seymour of White Bluff, Linda Siegel (Marc) of San Jose, CA; daughter-in-law, Marsha Whitaker of Union City, CA; former daughter-in-law, Barbara Spicer of White Bluff; 12 grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; 2 great great grandchildren.