Willoughby Daniel Whidden, 68, forman at the Florida Baptist Children's Home for the past 13 years, died at the Arcadia General Hospital last Saturday, October 26, after being a patient there for several days. 
  Mr. Whidden was a native of DeSoto county and had lived here all of his life. He was a deacon in the North Hillsboro Avenue Baptist church for the past several years. 
  Besides his widow, he leaves to survive, two brothers, William Lacey Whidden of Arcadia and James Otto Whidden of Moore Haven; two sisters, Mrs. Sally Connor of Fort Ogden and Mrs. Florence Trembley of Akron, Ohio; two children, W. D. Whidden, jr. of Arcadia and Mrs. Melon? Ashley of Indianapolis, Ind., and one granddaughter. 
  Funeral services were held on Tuesday afternoon at 3 oclock at the North Hillsboro Baptist church conducted by Rev. Carl Alderman, assisted by T. M. Johns. The choir from the Children's Home sang at the service and boys from the Home acted as pallbearers. They were Frank Jeffcoat?, Carl Adams, (illegible)