Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Lou Whitaker, member of a prominent pioneer Lincoln County family, who died Saturday night at the home of a daughter, Mrs. R. L. Motlow of Mulberry, were conducted yesterday afternoon from Higgins Brothers funeral home. The Rev. N. B. Tucker of Shelbyville and the Rev. C. L. Elkins of Mulberry officiated. Burial was in Rose Hill cemetery. Mrs. Whitaker, widow of I. B. Whitaker, would have been 84 years of age in April. She had been a life-long member of the Providence Methodist church. Her parents were the late Col. C. A. McDaniel and Mrs. Margaret Buchanan McDaniel, and she was the last member of her father’s family. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. R. L. Motlow of Mulberry and Mrs. Lawton Shannon of Dresden, Tenn.; four sons, Mac Whitaker of Fayetteville; Holland Whitaker and Coleman Whitaker of Petersburg; Mark Whitaker of Chattanooga; also several grandchildren. Pallvearers were Henry Terry, Stiles Ashby, C. Diemer Lamb, R. F. Buchanan, all of Fayetteville; Glen Brown of Shelbyville and Clinton London of Petersburg. Source: The Huntsville Times Huntsville, Alabama
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