Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, June 9, 1976

L. G. Whitfield

JONESBORO -- Funeral services for Louis Gordon Whitfield, 70, of Jonesboro were held at 1:30 p.m. today in the chapel of Southern Funeral Home of Jonesboro with the Rev. Paul Johnson officiating.

Burial was in Friendship Cemetery near Jonesboro.

Mr. Whitfield died Monday at Jackson Parish Hospital in Jonesboro after a brief illness.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Norma Whitfield of Jonesboro; one son, Gordon N. Whitfield of Aloha, Ore.; one daughter, Mrs. Laurinda Hearmann of Alta Loma, Tex.; two brothers, E. J. Whitfield of Metairie and Merrick Whitfield of Shreveport; two sisters, Mrs. Elisch Williams of San Antonio, Tex. and Mrs. Ann Epperson of Shreveport and six grandchildren.