Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, September 13, 1993 TAG: 9309130186
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
OBIT WILLIS, LUCY REMINES
WILLIS, Lucy Remines, 87, of Christiansburg, died Sunday, September 12,
1993 at Heritage Hall Health Care, Blacksburg. She was preceded in death by
her husband, warren A. Willis, four daughters, Linda Sparks, Shirley Willis,
Helen Philpott, Winky Showalter, and one son, Joe Furrow. Surviving are three
daughters and sons-in-law, Hazel and Jack Williams, and Margaret Fleming, both
of Blacksburg, Riby and Jack Gallagher, Newport; three sons and
daughters-in-law, Robert and Evelyn Wills, Roanoke, L. L. Furrow and Rosco and
Talma Furrow, both of Christiansburg; one stepson, Jack Willis, Blacksburg;
one sister, Lula Barnett, Lima, Ohio; thirty-three grandchildren; twenty-eight
great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held
Tuesday, September 14, 1993, 11 a.m. at Gateway Baptist Church, with the Rev.
Dewey O. Weaver Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Roselawn Memorial
Gardens. The family will receive friends Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at McCoy
Funeral Home.
by CNB