Extracted from The Southern Herald (Liberty, MS)
Thursday, October 8, 1981

RITES HELD FOR SAMIE [sic SAMMIE] WHITTINGTON

Samie [sic Sammie] Lee Whittington, 63, of Smithdale died Thursday, October 1, 1981, in Franklin Memorial Hospital in Meadville.

Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 3, at Zion Hill Baptist Chruch with the Rev. Burnette Carroway and the Rev. Odus Jackson officiating.

Mr. Whittington, an employee of International Paper Mill in Natchez, was born March 30, 1918, in the Zion Hill Community of Amite County.

Survivors include his wife, Georgia Reeves Whittington of Smithdale; two sons: Edward Earl Whittington and Roger Dale Whittington of Smithdale; three brothers, O. C. Whittington, and J. C. Whittington of Liberty and Alvie L. Whittington of Magnolia: four sisters: Florine Etheridge of Summit, Marlene Ogden of Mobile, Ala., Clarice Allred of Bogue Chitto and Geraldine Blalock of Liberty and three grandchildren.

Burial was in the Jacob Cemeter[y] in Amite County.