Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Monday, April 24, 1978

WHITTINGTON, DONNIE

Died at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 22, 1978, at his residence in Baton Rouge. He was 80, a native of Amite County, Miss.

Body at Hollabaugh Spindle's Wooddale Memorial Chapel. Religious services at Foster Road Baptist Church at 10:30 a.m. Monday and at Shiloh Chapel, Liberty, Miss., at 2 p.m. Monday, conducted by the Rev. Huey Moaq. Burial in Broomfield and Whittington [sic Brumfield-Whittington] Cemetery, Liberty, Miss.

Survived by two daughters, Mrs. J.C. Reeves, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Roy Riddle, Baker; one son, Cedric Whittington, Lake Charles; one sister, Mrs. Vina Williamson, New Orleans; 15 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild.

Member of Foster Road Baptist Church.