Extracted from The McComb Enterprise-Journal (McComb, MS)
Tuesday, March 4, 1986

J. C. “Jake” Whittington

GLOSTER -- J. C. “Jake” Whittington, 61, of Route 3, Liberty, died Monday in St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson. Visitation is underway until 10 tonight in Brown's Funeral Home of Gloster and will continue there at 8 a.m. Wednesday until services at 11 a.m. in Brown's chapel. The Rev. Wendell Davis and the Rev. Shep Johnson will officiate and burial will be in Jacobs' Cemetery near Zion Hill in Amite County.

Born Dec. 29, 1924, in Amite County, Mr. Whittington was the son of Sam Whittington and Lula Freeman Whittington. A member of the Church of Christ, he was a retired employee of Armstrong Tire and Rubber Co. in Natchez.
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J. C. “Jake” Whittington

GLOSTER -- Services will be at 11 a.m. today at the chapel of Brown's Funeral Home for J. C. “Jake” Whittington, 61, of Amite County, who died March 3 at St. Dominic's Hospital in Jackson. The Rev. Wendall Davis and the Rev. Shep Johnson will officiate. Burial will be in Jacobs Cemetery.

Whittington was born Dec. 29, 1924. He was a retired employee from Armstrong Rubber Co. Whittington was a member of the Church of Christ. He was the son of the late Sam and Lula Freeman Whittington.

Survivors include his wife, Doris McMillan of Liberty; two daughters, Betty Arnold and Billie Haygood of Liberty; three sisters, Marlene Ogden of Mobile, Ala., Clarice Alred of Bogue Chitto and Geraldine Blalock; and five grandchildren.

Brown's Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.