Extracted from The Shreveport Times (Shreveport, LA)
Friday, December 30, 1966

MRS. LILLIAN WHITTINGTON

LEESVILLE -- Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian Whittington, 65, will be at 2 p.m. today in the Enon Primitive Baptist Church with the Rev. Woodrow Wilson officiating. Burial will be in the C[r]yer Cemetery under direction of Hixson Funeral Home.

Mrs. Whittington died Wednesday in a DeRidder hospital.

Survivors are her husband; one son, John L. Whittington Jr. of Leesville; one daughter, Mrs. Linda Gail Green of DeRidder; her mother, Mrs. J. F. Blackman of Leesville; three step-sons, Eugene Whittington of Leesville, George L. Whittington of Clark[s] and Wade Whittington of West Monroe; one step-daughter, Mrs. Vergie Legg of Kelley [sic Kelly]; two brothers, Lawson O. Blackman of DeRidder and Orval Blackman of Rosepine; three sisters, Mrs. Creston Dunn of Columbia, Mrs. Claude Thompson of Rosepine and Miss Leah Blackman of Leesville; three grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren.