Obituaries: Jesse Malone Willis, 1973, Winn Parish, LA.
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: February 21, 1973 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American

J. M. Willis, 83, Hebron Native, Buried Feb. 14

Funeral services for Jesse Malone Willis, 83, of West Monroe, were held
Wednesday at 10 a.m. at the Mulhearn Funeral Home chapel in West Monroe with
Dr. Jerry Edmondson officiating.

Born and reared in the Hebron Community, Mr. Willis was a school teacher and
in later years he and his wife worked at Angola State Prison under the
administration of Huey Long after which he moved to Corpus Christi, Texas
where he was employed by the government.  He established a residence in West
Monroe in 1958.

Relatives in the Sikes and Hebron communities are the Thigpens, Walls, and
Willis families.

Burial was in the Roselawn Cemetery.

Mr. Willis died late Monday, February 12, 1973 at the St. Francis Hospital
following a lengthy illness.

He was a native of Winn Parish, a West Monroe resident since 1958 and a member
of the Fairbanks Baptist Church.

Survivors include his widow, Mrs. Leola Fluitt Willis of West Monroe; one son,
L. C. Willis, of Abbeville; one daughter, Mrs. Louis N. A. Seemann, West
Monroe; two sisters, Mrs. Beatrice Kelly of Columbia and Mrs. Birdie Lyning of
Ruston; seven grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.