Funeral service for Della Fern Wills, 430 Sheridan, will be held at 1:30 p.m. today at Ford and Sons Sprigg Street Chapel. The Rev. Jeffrey Sippy will officiate, with burial in McLains Chapel Cemetery.
Friends may call at the funeral home from 8 a.m. to service time.
Wills, 84, died Sunday, Feb. 6, 1994, at Southeast Missouri Hospital.
She was born Aug. 27, 1909, in Leemon, daughter of Forrest and Fanny McClard. She and Jesse R. Wills were married in 1925 in Cape Girardeau. He died May 26, 1952.
Survivors include two sons, Johnny Wills of Cape Girardeau, Don Wills of San Diego, Calif.; three daughters, Janet Enke and Betty Leist of Cape Girardeau, Charlotte Wills of St. Louis; seven grandchildren, and three great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by three sons, two daughters, three brothers and six sisters.
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