Extracted from The Caldwell Watchman (Columbia, LA)
Wednesday, October 23, 1996

Vergie Whittington Legg

Funeral services for Mrs. Vergie Inez Whittington Legg, age 82, of Clarks were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 16, 1996 from the Clarks Pentecostal Church with Rev. Gary Thomas officiating. Interment followed in the Old Bethel Cemetery at Clarks with services under direction of Riser & Son Funeral Home of Columbia.

Mrs. Legg, a homemaker, died Monday, October 14, 1996 at the Citizens Medical Center in Columbia following an extended illness.

Vergie Inez Whittington Legg was born on July 5, 1914 at Jena to the union of the late John Larry and Matilda Octavia Williams Whittington. She was an active member of the Clarks United Pentecostal Church.

She and her husband Richard were married on August 6, 1938. She was preceded in death by a son, Jimmy Legg.

Survivors include her husband, Richard Legg of Clarks; a daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Marlon Word of Pasadena, Texas; three sons and daughters-in-law, Buck and Loraine Legg of Columbia, Donnie and Dianne Legg of Clarks, and Larry and Lori Legg of Springhill; nine grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren; three brothers, George Lacy Whittington of Clarks, John L. Whittington of DeRidder, and Eugene Whittington of Columbia; and one sister, Linda Green of North Carolina.