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PALM SPRINGS

Congresswoman Bono Mack's Father Dies

BY LESLIE ANDREWS PALM SPRINGS, CA -Clay Whittaker, MD, father of 45th Congressional District Representative Mary Bono Mack, has passed away. He was approximately 84 years old. According to Frank Cullen, Bono Mack's chief of staff, Dr. Whittaker had a long battle with prostate cancer and had been battling it for almost a decade. Whitaker passed away in Arden, North Carolina. Born in Greenville, Kentucky on April 17, 1924, Whitaker was the son of Eva Nell Hunt Whitaker and Levi Whitaker. The youngest of six siblings, he was only five years old when his father, a physician, died at the age of thirty. Whitaker's mother worked hard to make ends meet during the years of the Great Depression. After completing school, he was admitted to Berea College in Kentucky. At Berea, he met his girlfriend, Karen Lee Taylor. Together, they enjoyed music and an active campus life until he entered the Army Air Corps during WWII. Assigned to the 8th Air Force, 95th Bomb Group, 334th Squadron stationed in Horham, England, Whitaker served as a B-17 waist gunner and flew 19 missions over Germany. After victory had been achieved, Whitaker proposed to Karen. After getting married, Whitaker completed his college education at Berea with a degree in chemistry and applied to Western Reserve medical school where he earned his M.D. in otolaryngology (ear, nose & throat) and then set-up his medical practice in Cleveland, Ohio. While living in Cleveland, he and Karen had four children, Stephen, David, Katherine and Mary. In 1963, Whitaker moved the family west to Los Angeles where he accepted a position as co-chair of the ENT department at L.A. County - USC Medical Center. As professor of ENT, he remained at USC until 1983 when he moved to Asheville, North Carolina, to chair the ENT department at the VA hospital and establish an ENT program at that facility for Duke University. He held that position until he retired. Whitaker loved the outdoors, especially hiking, camping and the Land Rovers that transported him to the backcountry. He loved classical music, the arts, sciences, literature, cars and vintage war planes. But most of all, he loved his family. Preceded in death by his beloved Karen, Whitaker is survived by his four children, Stephen Whitaker and his wife, Teri, of Bruceville, Indiana; David Whitaker and his wife, Carol, of Sealy, Texas; Katherine Whitaker of Asheville, North Carolina; and Congresswoman Mary Bono Mack of Palm Springs, California, and her husband, Congressman Connie Mack. He is also survived by eight grandchildren, Laura Kenney and her husband, Doug; Daniel and Christopher Whitaker, Cameron and Ian Whitaker, Teresa Shuford, and Chesare and Chianna Bono, and one great grandson, Thomas Kenney. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made in his name to either the Berea College Fund or Canyonlands Natural History Association. Details are pending regarding the establishment of these funds and information will be announced shortly. Funeral arrangements are being handled by Groce Funeral Home Lake Julian, Arden, North Carolina.

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