BELLE RIVE - Willard G. (Bill) Whipple, 76, died at 1:05 a.m. Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2009, at his home. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Belle Rive Missionary Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jeremy Hamson and the Rev. Kenneth Holland officiating. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery in Dahlgren. Visitation will be from 5 to 8 p.m. today at the church. Gholson Funeral Home in McLeansboro is in charge of arrangements. Published in The Southern Illinoisan on December 16, 2009