NAME: Ms. Velma Ruth Wills

AGE:    70

RESIDENCE:   Nash, TX

DIED:     Monday, December 4, 2017

PLACE:   New Boston, TX

BACKGROUND

BIRTHDATE:    January 15, 1947

BIRTHPLACE:     Tom, OK

OCCUPATION:   Retired Correctional Officer

CHURCH AFFILIATION:   New Zion Baptist Church – New Boston – she served as an Usher and with the kitchen committee

SURVIVORS

1 DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW:  Latosha and Tim Valencia of Wake Village, TX

1 SON:  Mickey Cotton of Nash, TX

6 BROTHERS AND 1 SISTER-IN-LAW:   Robert Wills, Jr. of Seattle, WA; James Wills and Kent Wills of New Boston, TX; Donald and Sandra Wills of Wake Village, TX; M. C. Wills of Lake Jackson, TX and Leslie Nelson Deloney of Foreman, AR

2 SISTERS:  Gwendolyn Wingfield of Texarkana, TX and Mattie Walker of Nash, TX

5 GRANDCHILDREN

SERVICE:

TIME/DAY:  Saturday, December 9, 2017 at 11:00 A.M.

PLACE:   First Baptist Church – New Boston

OFFICIATING:   Rev. Ross E. Daughtery

EULOGIST:   Rev. Joe Lee Haywood, Jr.

VISITATION:   Friday, December 8, 2017 from 5:00 – 7:00 P.M. at the mortuary

BURIAL:    Chapelwood Memorial Gardens

ADDITIONAL:

Ms. Wills was a member of the Order of Eastern Star