Extracted from The Southern Herald (Liberty, MS)
Thursday, January 11, 1979

RITES HELD FOR ALTON WHITTINGTON

Funeral services were held from Brown Funeral Home Chapel in Liberty for Alton Whittington at 2 p.m. Monday January 8. Rev. Bob Ashe officiated.

Mr. Whittington died in Field Memorial Hospital in Centreville January 6 following a lengthy illness. A retired pipe fitter, he was the son of the late F. E. and Eliza Bass Whittington. He was born January 22, 1925 and was a native of Amite County.

Survivors are three brothers, Kelly of Baker, La., Soule of Pensacola, Fla., and Paul of Liberty; seven sisters, C. Bell Foreman, Gladys Robertson, Dixie Duck, Vera Whittington, Hilda McKey, Virginia Baker, all of Liberty and Evelyn Hutchinson, Jackson, Miss., and a number of nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were: David Baker, Gregory Payne, Lowell Whittington, Bobby Dixon, Robert A. Hutchinson and Clinton M. Hathoway.