Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Thursday, June 25, 1970

F. C. WHITTINGTON

CLARKSDALE -- Services for Frank Causey Whittington, 64, of Rena Lara, will be held Thursday at 10 a.m. at the National Funeral Home. Burial will be in Coahoma Memorial Gardens.

A native of Gloster, Mr. Whittington had lived in Coahoma county for 50 years. He was a farmer.

He died Tuesday afternoon in his truck enroute to Clarksdale evidently of a heart attack.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Mary Little Whittington; two sons, James Calvin Whittington of Memphis and Frank Donald Whittington of Hill House; five daughters, Mrs. Herbert King of Memphis, Mrs. Clifton Cotton of Clarksdale, Mrs. John McGuire of Clarksdale, Mrs. Glenn Dacus of Clarksdale and Mrs. Edward Curry of Clarksdale; two sisters, Mrs. Jewel Wooley of Clarksdale and Mrs. Parrom Owens of Jackson; and three brothers, Clifton Whittington, of Eupora, Hollis Whittington of Clarksdale and Ellis Whittington of Memphis.