Extracted from The Sunday Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Sunday, March 14, 1971

WHITTINGTON, ALVIE B.

Died at 10:40 a.m. Saturday, March 13, at Southwest Mississippi General Hospital, McComb, Miss. He was 85, a native of Amite County, Miss., and a resident of Rt. 2, Summitt, Miss.

Body at Catchings Funeral Home, McComb. Religious services at 3:30 p.m. Sunday from the Tangipahoa Baptist Church, Summitt. Interment in Whittington Cemetery.

Survived by one son, A. R. Whittington, Baton Rouge; one daughter, Mrs. J. Morris Jones, Smithdale, Miss.; four grandchildren, and four brothers, Howell Whittington, Bennie Whittington, Clyde Whittington, all of McComb, and Frank Whittington, Summitt.

He was a member of Tangipahoa Baptist Church. He was retired from the Mississippi State Highway Department.