Extracted from The Natchez Democrat (Natchez, MS)
Sunday, November 27, 2005

Ernestine Whittington

May 25, 1931-Nov. 24, 2005

FERRIDAY, La. -- Funeral services for Mrs. Ernestine Whittington, 74, of Ferriday, La., will be held at Sycamore Baptist Church on Monday, Nov. 28, 2005, at 11 a.m. with ministers Richard Cullum and Don Tate officiating. Interment will follow at Shady Grove Baptist Church Cemetery in Jigger under the direction of Young's Funeral Home of Ferriday. Mrs. Whittington was born May 25, 1931, in Natchez. She died Thursday, Nov. 24, 2005, at Riverland Medical Center in Ferriday. She was a resident of Ferriday, a homemaker and a member of Sycamore Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Leon and Edna Sanders Freeman of Ferriday.

Survivors include her husband, Frank Whittington of Ferriday; two daughters, Wanda Durham and her husband, Ferris, both of Ferriday, and Kathy Newman and her husband, Ernie, both of Monroe; three sons, Dennis Whittington and his wife, Judy, and Scottie Whittington and his wife, Kathy, all of Ferriday, and Lanie Whittington and his wife, Angel, both of Monroe; 14 grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and one sister, JoAn Lea, and her husband, Barney, both of Jackson.

Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Jake Newman, Sam Newman, Daniel Whittington, Matt Whittington, Tyson Durham, Bryant Whittington and Eric Guillot. The family will receive friends at Young's Funeral Home in Ferriday from 5 to 8 p.m. today.