Extracted from The Hattiesburg American (Hattiesburg, MS)
Tuesday, January 21, 1969

Rites to be held Wednesday for Mrs. Frances Hinton

Services will be at 3 p.m. Wednesday at Calvary Baptist Church in Oak Grove for Mrs. Frances Rosetta Hinton, 84, of Pascagoula, who died Monday at her home.

Rev. Jerry Simon, Rev. Garland McInnis will officiate. Burial will be in the Jordan Cemetery in Jones County with Hulett Funeral Home in charge.

The body will be taken to the church at 2 p.m. Wednesday.

Mrs. Hinton was the widow of V. G. Hinton and a former resident of Oak Grove. She was a member of Calvary Baptist Church.

Survivors are three daughters, Mrs. Charles Ryder and Mrs. Lavada McSwain, both of Pascagoula, and Mrs. Annice Thornton of Purvis; two sons, Dr. Frashier G. Hinton of Venice, Fla., and Dr. Forrest Hinton of Immokalee, Fla.; two brothers, Wade Cross of Ellisville and Clayton Cross of Jefferson, Tex.; seven grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.