Grady County GaArchives Obituaries.....Ransom Foster "Pete" Willis February 10 1978
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The Cairo Messenger, February 17, 1978
The Cairo Messenger, February 17, 1978
Pete Willis Dies Friday
Popular Citizen Dies On Farm In Tragedy

Ransom Foster "Pete" Willis, 67, a popular Grady County citizen who owned and 
operated an attractive farm on the Cairo-Camilla Highway about six miles north 
of Cairo, Rt. 1, met a tragic death last Friday afternoon, Feb. 10, when he was 
crushed under a tractor that accidentally overturned and pinned him beneath it, 
officials of the Sheriff's Department and others who investigated reported.  
The tragedy was reported by a worker on his farm, it was revealed.  He was 
reportedly preparing a site for a farm pond when the tractor suddently 
overturned.

Many relatives and friends were greatly shocked by the news of the tragedy.

Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 12, at Pine Level 
Baptist Church with Rev. Freeman Allen officiating, interment was in the 
Greenwood Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were Ronnie Connell, David Connell, Ray Connell, David 
Harrison, Charles Powe and Vaughn Bond.  Honorary pallbearers were Eldron 
Whigham, Gene Powe, Jack McKown, Wesley Collins, Willard Powe, Walter Godwin, 
Cecil Connell, James Maxwell, Lynn Womble, George Bond, Bob Ferrell, Bill 
Griner, Ed Harrell, Howard Harrison, Fred Norton and Roland Waldron.

Mr. Willis was born in Grady County on April 29, 1910 to the late Henry Jackson 
and Mary Jane Barrett Willis and was married to the former Rebecca McKown on 
Jan. 1, 1933, who survives.  He spent his lifetime in Grady County and was an 
outstanding farmer and a member and deacon of Pine Level Baptist Church.

Survivors include: his wife, Rebecca M. Willis, of Cairo; two daughters, Mrs. 
Jane Willis Bentley, Shellman, Ga. and Miss Carolyn Willis of Cairo; another 
daughter, Sue Willis Poppell, preceded him in death on March 25, 1970; four 
grandchildren, Glenn and Steven Poppell, of Whigham, and Kenny and Danny 
Bentley, of Shellman, Ga.; two brothers, Clarence and Joe Willis, both of Cairo.

Clark Funeral Home of Cairo was in charge of arrangements. 


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