Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Vesta Mae Willis

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WILLIS Vesta Mae
 Funeral services for Vesta Mae Willis will be held at 2 p.m., Wednesday,
at Asa Smith Memorial Chapel.  Interment will follow at Memory Lane
Cemetery, both located in Harrah.  Arrangements directed by Asa Smith
Funeral Service of Harrah.
 Vesta Mae Willis, was born January 31, 1908 in Pocaasette, to Samuel
Winfield and Daisy E. Hill Dunlap and died in Elk City, Friday, March 8,
2002 at the age of 94.
 Vesta owned and operated the Willis Nursery in Elk City until her
retirement.
 She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Theodore Roosevelt
(Ted) Willis; daughter, Ura Mae Ferguson, grandson Timothy O'Reilly and
seven sisters and three brothers.
 She was a member of the United Methodist Church in Elk City.
 Survivors include one son, Theodore W. Willis and wife Carolyn of elk
City; one daughter, Daisy E. O'Reilly and husband John of Palm Desert,
California; nine grandchildren, ten great-grandchildren and three
great-great grandchildren.
     The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 11-Mar-2002