Fanola Nell Whitlock Despain

Mrs. Fanola Nell Whitlock DeSpain was born December 3, 1917 in Green County, Kentucky to the late Robert Marion Whitlock and Bertha Everett Mouser Whitlock. She departed this life Saturday, November 30, 2013 at the Taylor Regional Hospital in Campbellsville, having attained the age of ninety-five years, eleven months and twenty-seven days.

She had made a profession of faith in Christ and was a member of the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Besides her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Charlie Thomas DeSpain. She graduated from Lindsey Wilson College and started teaching at Liletown in 1936. She received her BS degree from Western Kentucky Normal School in 1948 with a secondary certificate. She retired from teaching in 1982. She was initiated into the Order of the Eastern Star in September 1955. She served as Worthy Grand Matron in 1968-1969.

She is survived by several nephews, nieces, cousins and a host of friends.

Funeral services for Mrs. Fanola Nell Whitlock DeSpain will be conducted 11 a.m. Central Time, Tuesday, December 3, 2013 at the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church with Bro. Kevin Brantley officiating and burial to follow in the Bennett Cemetery.  Visitation is requested from 4 p.m. until 8 p.m., Monday at Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral Home - 9 a.m. until 11 a.m. at Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church. Eastern Star services will be condcuted at 7 p.m. Monday at Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral Home.

Pallbearers: Joe DeSpain, David DeSpain, Phillip DeSpain, James DeSpain, Johnny DeSpain, Steve Shaw Honorary Pallbearers: Harold "Hudge" Hudgins, Jimmy Beams, Joe Tommy Hodges, Billy Conn Patterson, Joseph Richard Monday

The family has requested donations be made to the Greensburg Cumberland Presbyterian Church Fund. These can be made at Foster-Toler-Curry Funeral Home.