Obituary of Leila Virginia Whitten resident of Richland Parish Louisiana
as posted on Brown Holley Funeral Homes website,March,2007
Submitted by for the USGenWeb Archives by Dot Golliher, 03/24/2007



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 Leila Virgina Eppinette Whitten 


Services for Mrs. Leila Virginia Eppinette Whitten, 93, of Start will 
be 2 PM Friday March 16, 2007 at Mulhearn Funeral Home Chapel – Rayville, 
LA with Rev. Ken Bowman officiating. Burial will be at Start Cemetary.

Mrs. Whitten was born June 18, 1913 in Start LA. Mrs. Whitten passed 
away at Richardson Medical Center in Rayville after a lengthy illness. 

Mrs. Whitten's career included service at Rayville High School cafeteria, 
Frank Walker's in Monroe and Glenwood Hospital's Dietary Department in 
West Monroe. She played basketball in school was a fan of the Lady Indians 
basketball team at ULM, attending many home games. She believed in the 
Lord Jesus Christ; she loved and cared for her family and friends dearly. 

She delighted in her grandchildren and their children and grandchildren. 
She was preceded in death by her parents, Sidney Leon Eppinette and Maude 
Bennett Eppinette; her husband Martin Luther Whitten; her son, John Sidney 
Whitten, Sr.; and her brothers Raymond Archie Eppinette, Sr. and Allen 
Edward Eppinette. 

Survivors include daughters, Elizabeth Whitten Johnston and her husband
Charles Johnston, Sr., of Start, Betty Faye Whitten of Monroe; grandchildren, 
Karen Hart and husband Rusty, Johnette Whitten, Johnny Whitten and wife Debbie , 
Diana Litton and husband Hank, Russell Brent Whitten and wife Linda, Bobby 
Hendrix Jr., Marty Hendrix and wife Rhonda, Troy Whitten and wife Beatriz, 
Claudio Whitten; fourteen great grandchildren, and fourteen great, great 
grandchildren. 

Pallbearers will be Marty Hendrix, Bobby Hendrix, Jr., Russell Brent Whitten, 
Johnny Whitten, Ben Hart, and Michael Hart.