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Charles S. Whittington - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal, August 28, 1980

Services for Charles S. Whittington were held Saturday in the First Baptist Church in Greenwood 
with Rev. Curtis Burge and Xxxxn Cooper officiating. Burial was in Odd Fellows Cemetery under the 
direction of d Knight Funeral Home. 

For many years, Mr. Whittington was a planter and cattleman in Leflore and Carroll Counties in 
Mississippi.

He graduated from what is now known as Mississippi State University in 1917, and was selected its 
Alumnus of the Year. He helped establish the Mississipi University Development Foundation, Inc., and 
was one of the most generous donors. 

After his graduation in 1917, he came to Tallulah at the U.S. Entomology Laboratory where he met 
and married his wife, the former Mattie Blair.

Mr. Whittington had served as director of Mississippi Chemical Corporation, Yazoo City, Coastal 
Chemical Corporation, Yazoo Valley Oil Mill, Xxxxx Supply Cooperative of Greenwood, Cooperative 
Elevator Hardwood and the Mississippi XxxxxAssociation.

The many honors he received during his lifetime including Leflore County's Outstanding Citizen; 
Progressive Farmer's Master Farmer Award; Mississippi Cattlemen's Association award for outstanding 
service to the cattle industry; achievement award for Mississippi's Outstanding Stockman from
the MSU Block and Bridle Club; Swift and Company's Founder Centennial Award; New Orleans Bank of 
Cooperatives Distinguished Service Award.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Mattie Blair Whittington; a daughter, Mrs. John E. Hughes Jr. of 
Greenwood; three grandchildren, John E. Hughes III of Jackson, Linda Blair Hughes and Charles 
Whittington Hughes, Greenwood; four great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers were Buck Powers, Ed Bledsoe, Wayne Bush, David Hicks, Jack Johnson, Earl Rowland, 
Harold Coleman, Leo Murphree, Edward Williams and Carroll Sutton.

Honorary pallbearers were residents of Spring Lake Ranch; members of the executive committee of 
Yazoo Valley-Minter City Oil Mill, Farmers' Supply Cooperative and Mississippi Chemical Co.; 
W.B. Donald, Francis Stallworth, Dr. James McComas, Dr. W.L. Giles, Arthur Davis, Gene Heidelberg 
and Dr. Fred Sandifer.