Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1994 TAG: 9401190227
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG LENGTH: Short
OBIT WILLARD, JOSEPH E.
WILLARD, Joseph E., ("Ted"), 86, of Christiansburg, died Monday morning,
January 17, 1994, in a Radford hospital. He was a former merchant in
Christiansburg, and was the owner and operator of Willard Monument Company in
Christiansburg from 1952 until his retirement in 1974. He was a member of the
Christiansburg Lions Club, served on the Board of Directors of the
Christiansburg Cemetery Corp. for many years, was Past President of the Blue
Ridge Coon Hunters Association. He was a member of the church in Rogers, Va.
for many years, and his greatest love was his church in Rogers, Va., The
Trinity Fellowship Church, which he founded several years ago. He was preceded
in death by his father, mother, two brothers and his only daughter, Jo Ann
Willard Scott. Surviving are his wife, Virginia W. Willard; a sister, Ruth
McNeil, Christiansburg; a sister-in-law, Edna Willard; several nieces and
nephews, also many special friends. The funeral will be today at 1 p.m. at the
Richardson-Horne Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by Rev. Ellis Meredith with
interment in Sunset Cemetery. Arrangements are being conducted by
Richardson-Horne Funeral Home.
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