My father , Richard Whaley. Was a fair and responsible person loved to make his own hunting rifles by stock. I remember him doing the checkering on his lap with a light attatched to his forhead. He loved interesting foods. Kept up with world news topics and I loved him very much. We were able to discuss issues in the world easily together, politics, relgion, we watched boxing together and showed me a sufficient amount of resources of how tos newpapers, books and would sometimes watch him draw with his ball piont pen he kept in his pocket. I , myself is his youngest of four children. In order his first born son , Mark Whaley, second child, Jeff Whaley , third, Valerie Griffith and myself the fourth, Renee Whaley.