Milton Hugh Whitley

MILTON HUGH WHITLEY, 78, DIED EARLY TODAY AT A LOCAL HOSPITAL AFTER AN EXTENDED ILLNESS.
BORN IN NASH COUNTY, HE HAD LIVED HIS ENTIRE LIFE IN OR NEAR ROCKY MOUNT. SON OF THE LATE DORSEY WHITLEY AND PENNINY MURRAY WHITLEY, HE WAS A RETIRED FARMER AND LANDOWNER IN THE OAKDALE COMMUNITY ON TARBORO HIGHWAY. HE WAS A FORMER MACHINIST WITH EMERSON SHOPS, HAVING RETIRED IN 1955 AFTER 30 YEARS OF SERVICE.
WHITLEY WAS A MEMBER OF THE FIRST PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH.
FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 3PM SUNDAY AT GAY-YOST FUNERAL HOME CHAPEL. HIS PASTOR, THE REV. A.B. HOWARD, ASSISTED BY THE REV. JOE L. RUSSELL, A FORMER PASTOR, AND THE REV. JEROME HODGES, A RETIRED HOLINESS PASTOR, WILL OFFICIATE. BURIAL WILL BE IN ROCKY MOUNT MEMORIAL PARK.
SURVIVING ARE HIS WIFE, MRS. CORA PITTMAN WHITLEY OF THE HOME; SIX SONS, THURMAN C. AND THEODORE, BOTH OF THE HOME, RANDOLPH, DAVID AND MARVIN WHITLEY, ALL OF ROCKY MOUNT, AND MILTON J. WHITLEY OF BURLINGTON; THREE DAUGHTERS, MRS. RICHARD EASON OF TARBORO HWY., ROCKY MOUNT, MRS. SAMUEL LANGLEY OF WILSON AND MRS. JOE CORINTH OF ALTA VISTA, VA.; A BROTHER, JOE WHITLEY OF THE COOPERS COMMUNITY, NASH COUNTY; 21 GRANDCHILDREN; ONE GREAT-GRANDSON.
FRIENDS MAY CALL AT THE HOME ON TARBORO HWY., OR AT GAY-YOST FUNERAL HOME.
PALLBEARERS WILL BE DAVID WHITLEY JR, JOHN MARVIN WHITLEY, JAMES R. EASON JR, AND MICHAEL H. EASON, ALL GRANDSONS, JAMES HODGES AND ROLAND VEILLETTE.
MEMBERS OF THE MEN’S BIBLE CLASS OF THE FIRST PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH AND DR. G. R. RATCHFORD WILL SERVE AS HONORARY PALLBEARERS.