Grandma, Grandma you have been looking forward to this graduation day with joyful anticipation for a very long time! I am so grateful for everything you and Grandpa have invested in me ever since I was a small boy.

I fondly remember eating your "circled eggs", banana pudding, and cream puffs. Especially the banana pudding. To this day, whenever I come across banana pudding in a restaurant, I have to order it to see whose is the best. Yours wins every time. (I'm not sure if it is the recipe or the love--probably both. Whenever I make it, people who don't even know you flock to it, but my cousins still think yours is better).

I also remember creatively getting my cousins and myself into trouble while we would stay with you during the summer and having to fetch my own switch for a very needed correction!

But most of all I remember your kindness, your generosity to others, and how you fought your battles on your knees. I don't know of any greater prayer warrior than you,

Grandma. I had hoped to see you one more time before I moved my family to Charlotte, but alas it did not happen. Deep down, I had wanted one more opportunity to receive your blessing. But I know, Grandma, I know I already have it. I received it long ago, not just by the laying on of hands, but by having the privilege and very great honor, of following around learning from a woman who is highly esteemed in heaven.

God bless you, Grandma! I miss you, but I will see you again. Say hi to Grandpa and my mom for me, will ya?

I remember grandma as a very spiritual woman always doing for others passing down her legacy to all ill never forget her famous banana pudding Bryan and I would fight over who got the last of it.
Grandma is finally reunited with grandpa jl  . Darrell sherrell and Jerry may u rest in peace grandma until we meet again in heaven with Jesus I love you
Cheri

Marie Whalen was my Grandmother, Pastor and Fondest Childhood Memory. She like JC her husband was the spiritual Head the household. A blessing bestowed upon us from God. Her continuous prayers for her family and dedication in the Word brought all of us attached to the Whalen name closer to our Creator. It would be a understatement to say everyone here that’s left behind will have to step up our game in prayer. To even come close to the time she spent praying for her beloved family! She raised us well to do so and can’t wait to see the harvest where we all cast the crowns at Jesus feet together in paradise! 

Nora Marie Whalen Was my aunt . I look up to her from my child hood to adult. As a little girl I admired aunt Marie .I always wanted to be like her.From a child I was raised in a Christian home. I learned a lot from aunt Marie as far as my walk with God .What I am today I owe a lot to Aunt Marie my Grandparents an my parents.I would love to stay with aunt Marie I loved To watch her bake cakes sew and she was talking about the love of God. Aunt Marie loved my dad her brother so much. I miss being around her for lone time.I know I will see her again in heaven. Love your niece Love Loyetta Perkins / Cato

Ephesians 6:1-4 depicts and says a lot about who Marie was to me and Sherrell over many years! We know our days are numbered by God and rest in the fact that He has our lives in His hands.
Thank you Marie and the entire Whalen Family for being part of my life!! Robert Masonis.

Dear Grandmother, The legacy of love and faith you leave is remarkable. To me your most excellent accomplishment is your wonderful son and daughter in-law Dean & Patricia, and your dear and beautiful Family that remain on Earth. Until we hold each other in Heaven!

My fondest memories of my Grandma Whalen are talking till late at night about anything and everything (because Grandpa went to bed at sunset). She always had an encouraging word of wisdom or applicable Bible verse for every situation. Most of all Grandma was a women of faith, she lived what she believed and shared her love and faith in Jesus with every soul she met. I'm glad she finally gets to meet her maker and leave this troubled world behind. I will miss her and look forward to being with her someday.

Grandma, personified giving everything to God, family, and others. She worked hard serving the community, and made a huge positive impact on me. When I knew her she either was running the Whalen's Inn, or a Pastor - but always had time for me. A great example of a life well lived. I'll never forget after riding bikes for the day, grandma would have chili and corn bread ready.....

Marie Whalen was my husband Terry’s grandmother. I remember her as a kind energetic woman., who was full of love for God, her family and anyone who she encountered on her life journey. She would often minister to the people in her community often offering food and shelter along with a word about how much God loved them. Marie lived many lives from Wife , Mother, homemaker, hairdresser, running a diner, and an ordained pastor. She was a anchor to her family and a light to all.