Extracted from The News-Star (Monroe, LA)
Wednesday, March 10, 1948

PFC. R. T. WHITTEN RITES SATURDAY

The funeral of Pfc. Roma T. Whitten, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Whitten of Start, who lost his life in action in the recent war, will be held at the Crew Lake Methodist Church Saturday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. J. H. Midyett, Methodist minister of Rayville, will officiate, assisted by Rev. S. T. Emanuel, of Oak Ridge. The interment will be in New Salem Cemetery at Girard with the V. F. W. conducting the military rites. The Mulhearn Funeral Home will be in charge of arrangements. The body will be returned for reburial, reaching here on Friday. Private Whitten was killed at Guadalcanal July 9, 1943.

Private Whitten is survived by his parents; five brothers, Clyde Hardwick, Damon Whitten and Billy Whitten, Start; Owen [sic Ovin] Hardwick, Girard, and Mamon [sic Namon] Whitten, stationed with the army at Roswell, N. M.; and six sisters, Lillian Whitten, Dovie Whitten, Mrs. Jeff Davis, and Bobby Nell Whitten, Start; Mrs. Frank Hollingsworth, Monroe, and Mrs. Arthur Swartz, Philadelphia, Pa.

Active pallbearers will be George Semour, Hinton Watts, Forest Davis, Scott Word, Jordan Semour, and George Word. Honorary pallbearers will be Othneil Mitchell, Jesse Watts, John Richard Watts, Roy Montgomery, R. B. McGowen and Arichie Bennett.

Private Whitten had been in military service about two years at the time of his death.