Mitchell County NcArchives Obituaries.....Willis, Lucy Sparks January 11, 2007 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Julia Williams Kodak Jkodak@charter.net January 18, 2007, 2:43 pm Mitchell News-Journal 01/17/07 LUCY SPARKS WILLIS MARION - Lucy (Granny) Sparks Willis, 86, died Thursday, Jan. 11, 2007 at Autumn Care of Marion. Raised in the Bandana community, she was the daughter of Jeff and Della Howell Sparks, and wife of the late Lonnis Willis. Survivors include two daughters, Betty Turner of Marion, and Peggy Chubb of Temple, Texas; six grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and one great- great-grandchild. Funeral services were held at 7 p.m. Sunday in the Grindstaff Memorial Chapel of Webb Funeral Home in Spruce Pine. Revs. Gerald Grindstaff, Mark McKinney and Paul Bennett officiated. Burial was in Silver Chapel Cemetery. The family received friends from 6 p.m. until the service hour Sunday at the funeral home. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/mitchell/obits/w/willis417gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.3 Kb