Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, September 14, 1993 TAG: 9309140312
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
OBIT WILLIS, LUCY REMINES
WILLIS, Lucy Remines, 87, of Christiansburg, died Sunday, September 12,
1993 at Heritage Hall Health Care, Blacksburg. She was preceded in death by
her husband, warren A. Willis, four daughters, Linda Sparks, Shirley Willis,
Helen Philpott, Winky Showalter, and one son, Joe Furrow. Surviving are three
daughters and sons-in-law, Hazel and Jack Williams, and Margaret Fleming, both
of Blacksburg, Ruby and Jack Gallagher, Newport; three sons and
daughters-in-law, Robert and Evelyn Willis, Roanoke, L. L. Furrow and Rosco
and Talma Furrow, both of Christiansburg; one stepson, Jack Willis,
Blacksburg; one sister, Lula Barnett, Lima, Ohio; thirty-three grandchildren;
twenty-eight great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services
will be held Tuesday, September 14, 1993, 11 a.m. at Gateway Baptist Church,
with the Rev. Dewey O. Weaver Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in
Roselawn Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends Monday from 7 to 9
p.m. at McCoy Funeral Home.
by CNB