Denton County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Willis, Lutitia Barnett 1925
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The Abilene Reporter. January 23, 1925, p. 3
Mrs. L. B. Willis 96 Died Here on Friday
Funeral To Be Held Friday Evening; Burial At Denton, Texas.
Mrs. Lutitia Barnett Willis, mother of City Judge T. M. Willis, died in Abilene
Friday morning at 1:30 
o’clock at the extreme old age of ninety-six years, one month and fifteen days. 
	Though she had been in declining health, during the last few years, she was able to
walk about the 
house and was up Thursday night. After sitting up the fore part of the night in her
usual custom, she 
retired Thursday night about 11 o’clock and died at 1:30. She contracted a cold a
few days ago, which 
with her old age caused her death.
	Mrs. L. B. Willis was born near Bambridge [sic], Georgia, December 8, 1828. Her
husband was Dr. T. 
L. Willis, they having been married in Bambridge [sic] in 1860 [sic]. In 1866 the
family came to Texas 
and settled in Waco, where they remained only two months, going from there to
Weatherford, where 
they lived until 1872. From Weatherford the family moved to Denton, where Dr. Willis
died in 1886 [sic]. 
After the death of her husband, Mrs. Willis came to Abilene and made her home with
her son, T. M. 
Willis. Judge Willis came to Abilene in 1883 and is one of the pioneer settlers of
this section. 
	Deceased was a member of the First Methodist Church of Abilene and up until about
two years ago 
was very faithful in church and Sunday school attendance. She joined the Methodist
church in her early 
girlhood. Deceased is survived by one son, T. M. Willis, and a number of
grandchildren and great 
grandchildren.
	The body of the deceased will be taken to Denton, Texas, for burial on the midnight
train tonight 
(Friday), and interment will be made by the side of her husband. Funeral services
will be held in Abilene 
tonight (Friday) at 8 o’clock at the home of T. M. Willis at 402 Peach Street, with
the Rev. W. M. Pearce, 
pastor of the First Methodist Church, and Dr. T. S. Knox, pastor of the First
Presbyterian Church, 
officiating.
	The remains will be accompanied to Denton by Tom Willis, Jr., who will be joined at
Fort Worth by 
John T. Willis, of Waco, another grandson and by Mrs. Ike Hudson and Miss Sallie
Willis of Fort Worth, 
granddaughters of the deceased. Judge T. M. Willis, who has been ill for a few days,
will not be able to 
attend the funeral in Denton. The services there will be conducted from the home of
Mrs. Emory C. 
Smith, niece of the deceased. 

 -The Abilene Reporter. January 23, 1925, p. 3

Mrs. L. B. Willis, 92, Dies at Abilene; Funeral Here
Mrs. L. B. Willis, 92, a former resident of Denton, died at the home of her son, Tom
Willis, in Abilene 
Thursday night and the body is to arrive here at 9:15 A.M. for burial Saturday. Mrs.
Willis had been in 
feeble health for several years and her death was not unexpected.

	-Denton Record-Chronicle. January 23, 1925, p. 5

Mrs. L. B. Willis of Abilene Buried in Denton Saturday
Commitment services for Mrs. L. B. Willis, 96, of Abilene, who died there Thursday
night, were held at 
the I. O. O. F. cemetery here Saturday morning. Mrs. Willis, widow of the late Dr.
Willis, was for many 
years a resident of Denton, where the family were pioneers, and moved to Abilene
more than 30 years 
ago. She was an aunt of Mrs. Emory C. Smith of Denton. 
The services were in charge of Rev. Sam Black, pastor of the Methodist Church, of
which she had been a 
member since childhood. Funeral services were held at Abilene Friday. The
pall-bearers were John H. 
Cleveland, L. L. Fry, Will Williams, Fred Keyte, George M. Hopkins, R. A. Sledge, W.
C. Orr and Will C. 
Edwards. 
Those here from out of town to attend the burial were Miss Sallie Willis of Fort
Worth, Tom Willis of 
Abilene and John T. Willis of Waco. 

	-Denton Record-Chronicle. January 24, 1925, p. 6


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