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Durwood Willhite - Madison Parish, Louisiana 

From Tallulah Madison Journal August 2, 1995

Services for Durwood Willhite were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, July 30, at First Baptist Church in Tallulah 
with the Rev. James Hays officiating. Burial was at Memorial Park Cemetery with full Masonic Rites. 
Visitation was from 5 p.m. until 8:30 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.

Mr. Willhite died Friday, July 28, 1995, at Franklin Parish Medical Center in Winnsboro, La. He was 72.

He was born in Ouachita Parish and had lived in Madison Parish since 1946. He was a veteran of World War II 
and a farmer; He was a member of the Madison Parish School Board for12 years, where he served as president. 
He was of the Baptist faith.

He is survived by his wife, Lucy Ellerman Willhite of Tallulah; two sons, Durwood Willhite Jr. of Tallulah 
and Weldon Barry Willhite of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.; six brothers, O. D. Willhite of Zwolle, La., Oliver Willhite 
of Columbia, S.C., John A. Willhite and James M. "Jimmy" Willhite, both of Tallulah, Charles Willhite of 
Columbia, La., and Glenn Willhite of Newellton; two sisters, Emma Louise Dowdy of Ruston, La., and 
Jeanette Ward of Longview, Texas; and five grandchildren.