vices for Judge Leon Harrell Whitten, age 65,
will be held Saturday, June 14, 2003, at 3:00 p.m. at the First
Baptist Church, Jonesboro, LA. Burial will follow the services at
Gayla Traina Cemetery in Jonesboro. Judge Whitten was a resident of
Jonesboro, LA. He attended the University of Louisiana at Lafayette
and graduated from Louisiana State University Law School in 1962. He
served as District Attorney of the Second Judicial District from
1972 to 1982 and as a District Judge from 1982 to 2000. He was an
active member of First Baptist Church and the Jonesboro #150 Hodge
Lions Club. He was preceded in death by his parents, H.L. Whitten
and Ruth Phillips Whitten and his wife Jatis Robinson Whitten. He is
survived by his adoptive mothers Louise Whitten Tyler and Lurline
Vail Whitten. He is also survived by his beloved wife Sarah Robinson
Whitten and five children: Laurie Whitten and husband Robbie James,
Rob Whitten and wife Abby, Kate Whitten Julazadeh and husband David,
Judd Harnage and wife Michele, Leslie Harnage Cuevas and husband
Ramon. He is also survived by five grandchildren: Leon Harrell
Whitten II, Hannah Whitten, Isabel Julazadeh, Tanner Harnage, and
Wyatt Harnage. He is also survived by many other relatives.
Pallbearers will be Jim Gimber, Emmett Hall, Jimmy Golden, Troy
Smith, Ed Rich, Jerry Shankles, Jim Schmidt, and Johnny Templeton.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Honorable Jennifer Clason, the
Honorable Glen Fallin, the Honorable Jimmy Teat, the Honorable
Robert Butler, the Honorable Paul Newell, the Deacon Board of First
Baptist Church, and members of the McDonald's Coffee Club. Memorials
may be made to the First Baptist Church of Jonesboro, Building Fund,
500 South Cooper Ave. Jonesboro, LA 71251, the American Cancer
Society, or the charity of the donor's choice.

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