Extracted from The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)
Monday, April 10, 1972

ROBERT WHITTINGTON

CLEVELAND -- Funeral services for Robert Davis Whittington, 71, will be 10 a.m. Monday at the Dockery Baptist Church with Thweatt-King Funeral Home in charge. Graveside services will be 3 p.m. at the County Line Cemetery in Crystal Springs.

A native of Crystal Springs, Mr. Whittington had been general store manager for Dockery Enterprises for the past 30 years. Se [sic He] was a member of the Dockery Baptist Church and the Beulah and Rosedale Fishing Club.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Flossie Howell Whittington, Cleveland; one daughter, Mrs. Morris Drees, Kiel, Germany; one sister, Mrs. C. M. Till, Summit; and one brother, Quitman Whittington, Cleveland. There were four grandchildren.