Extracted from The Jena Times (Jena, LA)
Wednesday, March 23, 2005

Marie G. Whittington

Marie G. Whittington, 68, of Trout, died Friday, March 18, 2005, at her residence.

She was a homemaker.

Services were held at 2 p.m., Sunday, March 20, in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home of Jena with Revs. Earnie Maynard and Johnny Porter officiating.

Interment followed in the Pleasant Hill Cemetery near Jena under direction of Hixson Brothers, Inc. of Jena.

Survivors include one daughter, Susan Evans and husband Dennis of Jena; one son, Kenneth Whittington and wife Abbie of Jena; three brothers, John Patt of Natchez, Ms., Melvin Patt of Marion, Ohio, and Robert Lee Patt of Brookhaven, Ms.; ten grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were A. A. Morace, Jesse Carpenter, Norman Walters, Harlon Newman, Bo Smith, and David Boyette.

Honorary pallbearers were Toxie Evans and Jayson Evans.