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LEE ETTA (MCDONALD) WHITE -- The News-Star, Monroe LA, 1 Oct 1963
Funeral services for Mrs. Lee Etta White, 86, of Monroe will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday in the chapel of Hixson Brothers Funeral Home. Burial, under the direction of Hixson’s, will be in the Ogden Cemetery in Liddieville.
Mrs. White died Monday [30 Sep 1963] at her residence, 106 Rochelle Ave.
She is survived by four sons, Harvey White, Smackover, Ark., Ellis and Milton White, both of Monroe, and Lavon White of Phoenix, Ariz.; four daughters, Mrs. Eula Hanson, Tempe, Ariz., Mrs. Onie Maye Wilson, Tyler, Texas, Mrs. Beulah Martin, Monroe, and Mrs. Lou Ella McElduff, Ruston; 12 grandchildren and 23 great-grandchildren.
[Mrs. White was the daughter of Wesley MCDONALD and Amanda MAY MCDONALD WHITE. She married Arlington Ellis WHITE on 5 Dec 1897 in Jackson Parish LA.]
--Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com

WILLIAM HOWARD WHITLOCK -- The News-Star, Monroe LA, 15 Sep 1955
Funeral services for William Howard Whitlock, 60, of West Monroe, who died Monday [12 Sep 1955] morning in the Veterans Hospital in Shreveport, were held at 2 p.m. Thursday at the Mt. Olive Baptist Church with Rev. Russell officiating, assisted by Rev. Edward C. Williams. Interment will be in Mt. Olive Cemetery, under the direction of Hall Funeral Home. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Johanna Whitlock of West Monroe; three sons, Jason M. Whitlock and A.J. Whitlock of West Monroe, and Melvin Whitlock with the U.S. Air Corps in England; two daughters, Mrs. Christine Hargrove and Mrs. Laura V. Harrison, both of Lawton, Okla.; and six grandchildren.
--Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com

JAMES DAVID WILHITE -- The News-Star, Monroe LA, 11 Oct 1966
Funeral services will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Luna Assembly of God Church near West Monroe for James David Wilhite, 34, Rt. 3, West Monroe, who died early Monday [10 Oct 1966]. The Revs. Leonard Sapp and Charles Tolbird will officiate and burial will be in the church cemetery by Kilpatrick Funeral Home of West Monroe. Pallbearers will be James and Daniel Leonard, K. L. Thomas, Brinkley Myers, Jesse Wilson and Joe Wheat.
[Mr. Wilhite was married to Betty Faye MURPHY.]
--Contributed 2021 Oct 02 by Doug McBroom doug324@aol.com

JOE D. WIMBERLY -- Monroe Daily Star, Nov 16, 1898, Page 1, Column 4
Mr. Joe D. Wimberly died at his father's home near Mer Rouge, La., last night in the 44th year of his age. The remains will be brought to this city this evening for interment and the funeral will take place from the undertaking establishment of J. E. Peters tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock, proceeding to the Monroe cemetery. Mr. Wimberly had been in ill health for more than a year past and had visited Hot Springs several times with the hope of recupering (sic) but his efforts were unrewarding. When he returned from his last trip to the Springs he went to his father's home near Mer Rouge and was confined there to () until his death. At one time he was prominently identified here in business circles and in steamboating, but reverses overtook him, he lost his health and quite a competency that had been acquired was sunk in business ventures and in attempting to regain his health. Mr. Wimberly was a cousin of Capt. Wimberly, collector of the port of New Orleans, and it was said that he had been slated for a good position in the Custom House, but his health never admitted of his accepting it. Mr. Wimberly married Mrs. Mollie Turpin, a sister of Mr. W. D. Hutchinson, of Rayville, who died before him. They had one child, Enied, who survives them, aged 8 years.
-- Contributed by Unknown, culled from loose newspapers in a box in the cabinet of the Special Collections room of OPPL.

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