Extracted from The Alexandria Daily Town Talk (Alexandria, LA)
Monday, April 9, 1962

Whitten Infant

(Special to The Town Talk)

JENA, La. -- Funeral services for Robert Wayne Whitten, three-week-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Freddie Whitten of Jena, were held Sunday at 2 p.m. from the Temple Baptist church in Jena with the Rev. K. G. Brooks officiating. Interment was in the Tidwell cemetery at Nebo under the direction of Kinner-Stevens Funeral Home.

Pallbearers were Doyle Poole, J. A. Willis, K. G. Brooks Jr., and Steve Crooks.

Besides his parents, the Whitten infant is survived by two brothers Terry [sic Perry] and Michael Whitten and a sister, Alice Whitten, all of Jena; paternal grandmother, Mrs. Fred Whitten, Tullos and maternal grandmother, Mrs. Alice Bradfore [sic Bradford], Jena.