Obituary Record
Whitfield, John Y. Van - June 11, 1935
Mr. E. Van Whitfield and family have the sympathy of the community in the visitation of sorrow that has again come to his home.
His youngest son, John (J.Y.) Whitfield, native of Bay St. Louis, aged 27 years, died in New Orleans Tuesday, June 11, a victim of pneumonia.
The remains were conveyed to Bay St. Louis and the funeral took place from his father's residence out Main street (Blue Meadow Road) Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock, Rev. Father Patrick Moran, church Out Lady of the Gulf, officiating.
From here the funeral continued to Fenton where the remains were buried in the family plot near Fenton, Rev. Father Denis, of the Catholic church at Kiln, conducting the final rites of the church.
The funeral was largely attended by friends both from this immediate section and the Kiln- Fenton sector where the family are equally as well known.
The deceased is survived by his father, one brother, Rufus Whitfield, of Kreole, Miss. and one sister, Mrs. M.J. Dodd, resident of Jackson, Miss. His mother, Mrs. Angelina Moran Whitfield, of Kiln, passed away years ago.
Source: Sea Coast Echo