Extracted from the Pine Bluff Commercial (Pine Bluff, AR)
Thursday, January 6, 1977

D. L. Witherington

Special to The Commercial

TEXARKANA -- Dawson Larkin Witherington, 70, of Texarkana, a former resident of Pine Bluff, died Wednesday at Wadley Hospital here. He was a retired manager of the National Building at Pine Bluff.

He was a native of Jersey (Bradley County) and had lived in Bradley County and Pine Bluff for a number of years, moving here four years ago from Pine Bluff. He had served in the armed services during World War II.

He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Alda Tate Witherington; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret S. Atkinson of Texarkana; a brother, Lamar Witherington of Pine Bluff; a sister, Virginia Witherington of Arkadelphia; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.

Funeral services were today at Frazer Funeral Home at Warren. Burial was in Oakland Cemetery at Warren.