Whipple "Whip" Hall Manning 73, died suddenly and unexpectedly in his sleep at his home in the Tucson Foothills on November 4, 2009. 

Born in Oakland, California, to John and Anne Manning, he graduated from The Orme School in Mayer, Arizona.  He attended Stanford University and graduated from the University of Arizona in 1961, where he was a member of Alpha Tau Omega fraternity.  He met his wife, Jacqueline Long, in San Francisco where they were married in 1963.  They resided in La Canada-Flintridge, California, for 30 years before moving to Tucson in 1999.

Whip was a wonderful and loving father to his two children, Dr. Thomas Crellin Manning of Boise, Idaho, and Elizabeth Anne Manning of Anchorage, Alaska.  He worked in commercial lending in the banking industry in California for 46 years.

He will be remembered fondly by friends and family for his kindness, generosity, intelligence , and wit.  He was an avid Arizona Wildcat fan, loved the West and Western art, and enjoyed reading, fishing, bird hunting, listening to music, and most of all, being with friends and family.  He will be dearly missed. 

In addition to his loving wife and two children, he is survived by his favorite daughter-in-law, Julie Ann Manning, favorite son-in-law, John Maunsel Pearce and five loving grandchildren, Claire, Owen, and Henry Manning, and Bennett and Eliot Pearce.

Arizona Daily Star, November 8, 2009