ROY WILLIS

OLIVE BRANCH, Ill. -- Roy Allen Willis, 82, of Olive Branch died Friday, Feb. 3, 1995, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

He was born Oct. 16, 1912, at Miller City, the son of Roy A. and Ersa Morningstar Willis. On Aug. 19, 1934, he married Eshcol Lesar, who survives.

Other survivors include a daughter, Darlyn Pearman of Kissimmee, Fla.; two sons, Maurice "Bub" Willis of Olive Branch and Gregory Willis of Shreveport, La.; two sisters, Lucille Miller of Olive Branch and Verta Lee Oller of Jackson, Tenn; and six grandchildren, two of whom he and his wife reared, Marty Willis and Theresa Lamburth, both of Cape Girardeau.

He was preceded in death by a sister.

He was a lifelong farmer in the Olive Branch area.

Visitation will be after 5 p.m. today and until 1 p.m. Monday at Crain Funeral Home in Tamms.

Services will be at 1:30 p.m. Monday at Trinity Assembly of God Church in Olive Branch, where he attended. The Rev. Billy Don Heady and the Rev. Carl Hester will officiate. Burial will be in the Olive Branch Cemetery.