Very loved husband, son, and father
Born February 8, 1955; Died April 30, 2009
I'm very thankful to have had fourteen wonderful years with Steve. He was a very good father to our children, and a wonderful husband. We really had a special relationship, and we were truly in love 99.9% of the time. We made a point of keeping things very clean, very in the open, and not letting even a little "off-ness" persist. We handled things right away, talked things out if we were not 100% in love. That was our standard. We hardly ever got to the point of even being irritated with the other. That was way too far off the mark. I think that makes a difference in how I feel now. No regrets.
It also helps that I know he still is as a being, and that he will be soon, or already is, starting a new life. That's my reality.
His memorial will be held at McCloud High School on June 27, 2009 at 4 pm.
All friends and students are invited to attend.
Marilyn Brown

Steven Whitmore was born in Greenville, Ohio, a small town, where three generations of his family had lived. Shortly after Steve’s birth, the family headed for California. His parents both were teachers.
During his childhood, the family explored California’s beaches, foothills, forests, lakes and mountains on weekends and in the summers. Mount Shasta area was a favorite. Steve developed a love and appreciation of nature’s beauty in every season. Steve was always open, out-going, friendly, and quick to understand, as a child and as an adult.
During high school Steve became expert at black and white photography, and was commissioned by the School of Education at California State University, Hayward to create an exhibition of black-and-white photos to illustrate the changing nature of schools in the Bay Area during the 1970’s. Steve’s collection of 16 x 20-inch photographs captured the racially and culturally diverse populations of students who were excited and engaged in academic learning in a variety of school settings. Steve’s exhibition attracted large groups of students, faculty and visitors to the campus.
Steve graduated from California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo in 1988. He then enrolled at California State University, Humboldt, where he earned a California Teaching Credential in Science with certification to teach Biology, Physics, and Chemistry. He wanted very much to find a teaching position in the Mt. Shasta region.
Steve’s vision became a reality. Steve taught in the District for 16 years, primarily at McCloud High School. Sadly, his science teaching career ended prematurely because the medications for a brain injury interfered with his teaching….  In time, he was able to find an outlet for his creative mind and natural talent.
He began a novel with a protagonist who, strangely enough, was the victim of a traumatic brain injury.
The first 34 chapters are first-rate and spell-binding!
Steve died before he finished his first novel; but all of us who have known and loved Steve Whitmore admire his courage in the face of extreme adversity.
His openness and lifelong values have endeared him to all of us but the greatest gifts he could possibly have given to us were his courage and his ability to accept others as they are: his ability to grant beingness to another.
Steve is survived by his sister, Elizabeth Marie Whitmore, and his mother, Rita Whitmore Peterson. Steve is also survived by his son, Daniel Whitmore, by Steve’s first marriage; and by Marilyn Brown, Steve’s current wife, and her two children by a former marriage, Belle and Art Burnell.
Rita Whitmore Peterson