Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Friday, August 18, 1972

H. D. WHITTINGTON

CRYSTAL SPRINGS -- Funeral services for Horace Douglas Whittington, 67, will be held at 3 p.m. Saturday from County Line Baptist Church. Burial will be in the church cemetery. The body will be at Baldwin Funeral Home here until the service hour.

Whittington died in Sacremento [sic Sacramento], Calif., Tuesday after suffering a heart attack. A native of Crystal Springs, he had lived in California about 40 years. He was a construction worker and had spent three years working in Arabia. He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his father, Claude D. Whittington, Terry; four brothers, Aldie Whittington, Isola, Elmer Whittington, Haywood, Calif., Louis Whittington, Livermore, Calif., Bennie Whittington, Ocean Springs, Miss.; four sisters, Mrs. N. J. Keyes, Mrs. Edward Stevens, both of Terry, Mrs. P. C. Nichols, Enterprise, Ala., Mrs. Everett Wilson, Liberty.