TERREBONNE and LAFOURCHE Parishes, La. OBITUARIY for WHITFIELD SR., WILLIAM Submitted by: Louis Lavedan Published in Houma Today & The Daily Comet from Jan. 10 to Jan. 12, 2015 Died: Friday, Jan. 9, 2015 ============================================================================= Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/copyright.shtml ============================================================================= WHITFIELD SR., WILLIAM ========== A photo is available for this file. Please go to http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafourche/obits/dateobits/2015/f1501.htm and click on the name of interest. ========== William Eddie Whitfield Sr., 82, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Austin Whitfield, Feb. 7, 1932. He fell asleep in death Friday, Jan. 9, 2015. Visitation will be from 10 a.m. until funeral time Monday, Jan. 12, at Samart Funeral Home in Houma. Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Monday at the funeral home, with burial in Garden of Memories Cemetery. He is survived by his loving wife of 29 years, Eldridge Foret Whitfield; sons, William "Billy" Whitfield Jr., Jesse and wife, Debra, and Stephen and wife, Donna; daughter, Cynthia Whitfield Pellegrin; stepdaughters, Cynthia Martin, Molly Marcel, Fran Moree, Patrice Freeze and Rachel Bourg; 24 grandchildren; and 35 great-grandchildren. "Wild Bill" as some knew him, will be greatly missed. Samart Funeral Home in Houma is in charge of arrangements. ======================