Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Friday, July 9, 1943

Hold Funeral Services For Horace Whittington

Centreville, Miss., July 8 -- Funeral services for Horace Whittington, 60, were held Tuesday afternoon at the New Hope church with Revs. D. H. Cassels and R. A. Allums officiating. Interment was in the New Hope cemetery.

Whittington, an Amite county farmer, died in the Field Memorial hospital following a brief illness.

He is survived by his wife, four sons and four daughters. One son is with the United States armed forces in North Africa.

He was the son of the late Monroe Whittington.