Extracted from The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Tuesday, August 21, 1979

WHITTINGTON, MYRTIS REBECCA

Died Monday, Aug. 20, 1979, at Our Lady of the Lake Medical Center. She was 83, and a resident of Gloster, Miss. She was the widow of Buck Whittington.

Body at Brown Funeral Home, Gloster. Religious services at Mount Pleasant Baptist Church, Gloster, at 10 a.m. Wednesday. Burial in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.

Survived by three daughters, Mrs. Versie Freeman, Liberty, Mrs. Mae Butler, Baton Rouge, and Mrs. Bernice Bass, Gloster; four sons, J.B. Whittington, Liberty, Hollis and Floyd Whittington, both of Baton Rouge, and Grady Whittington, Augusta, Georgia; a sister, Mrs. Eunice Cole, Meadville; 20 grandchildren; and 32 great-grandchildren.