Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, April 8, 1955

WHITTINGTON, MRS. LILLIE

Died at 11:15 p.m. Wednesday at Our Lady of the Lake Hospital. Aged 77. Resident of Denham Springs, native of Gloster, Miss. Member of the Baptist Church. Body to rest at Rabenhorst Parlors until 10 a.m. Friday. Funeral services at 11 a.m. at Eden Baptist Church. Burial in the New Denham Springs Cemetery, the Rev. Harvey Wilson officiating.

Survived by her husband, William Hardy Whittington; five sons, Truley, Meadville, Miss., Jessie, Denham Springs, Morgan and Earl, Central, and D. C., Zachary; four daughters, Mrs. Adam Perry, Ponchatoula, Mrs. C. A. Causey and Mrs. Joe Flynn, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. J. D. Causey, Meadville, Miss.; one sister, Mrs. Ike Gore, Central; 24 grandchildren, seven great-grandchildren.