Berrien-Turner County GaArchives Obituaries.....Lanneau, Willa Erma Brooks October 21, 2007
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The Berrien Press - October 21, 2007
 Willa Erma Brooks Lanneau died October 21, 2007 in Orlando, FL as a result of 
complications form a broken hip and shoulder suffered in a fall on April 23, 
2007. She was a life time resident of Georgia until she moved to Orlando in 
2004 to live with her daughter, Marie.
 She was born in Manchester on August 29, 1920 to Alex Crofford and Olive Hutto 
Brooks. Her family moved to the area surrounding Tift County about 1925 where 
she was raised. After graduating from high school, she opened her own beauty 
parlor in Tifton. She met the love of her life, Frank Bliss Lanneau, Jr. from 
Asburn during beauty school training. In 1940 she and Frank married to move to 
Macon where they raised three children, Frank Bliss Lanneau, III, Joyce Marie 
Lanneau Stepter of Orlando, and Janet Kay Lanneau Putnal of Macon. Her husband 
and son predeceased her.
 She worked at the Independent Laundry in Macon as an insurance agent for Life 
& Casualty Insurance Co., as a school crossing guard, and in many delivery and 
sales jobs.
 As a result of her blindness and advanced illness, she had to sell the house 
in Macon where she had lived for 57 years and moved to Orlando. Her heart, 
however, never left Georgia.
 She was a devout Christian and an active member of Cherokee Heights Baptist 
Church. Her life revolved around her family and she had a keen interest in 
family history. In the 1980s she joined the Mormon Church which emphasizes 
family history in its teachings. Her first major family history project 
involved the Dame Family of her mother. After move than 20 years, she was 
successful in convincing the State of Georgia to erect a historical marker to 
Dame's Ferry and name a school and park after the Dame Family.
 She also authored a comprehensive book on the family history of her father, 
James Alex Brooks, his parents and their descendants.
 Services were held in the Chapel of Hart's Mortuary in Macon on Wednesday, 
Oct. 24 at 11 a.m.  Burial was in Rose Hill Cemetery in Ashburn at 2:30 p.m.
 Hart's Mortuary in Macon was in charge of arrangements.

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