Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries

[Edward Thomas Willard]


OBITUARY: Palestine (TX) Herald-Press, Thursday, 10 January 1985:

Mr. Willard

Services for Edward Willard, 74, of Palestine will be Friday at 2 p.m. in 
Hassell & Foster Chapel with the Rev. Charles Grasty officiating. Burial will 
be Garden of Memories Cemetery, Elkhart.

Mr. Willard died Wednesday in Medical Center Hospital, Tyler, after a lengthy 
illness. He was born Sept. 12, 1910 in Fairfield, a son of Kirt and Nancy Gunter 
Willard. He had lived in Palestine for the past 49 years, and was employed as a 
package store salesman.

Survivors include his wife, Geneva Walston Willard; two sons Maurice and David 
Carl Willard, both of Palestine, three sisters, Mabel Tyus of Fort Worth, 
Margaret Eastman and Myrtle Stanaland, both of Palestine; four grandchildren 
and four great-grandchildren.