I have Artie WILLIS as s/o Marshall WILLIS & Eva MADDOX per Denning Twp, Franklin Co IL cem. book (Susan DORRIS 1983) pg 81, Denning Cem: WILLIS, Oscar b. 2 Oct 1898 d. 29 Jan 1977 Husband Wauynetta b. 5 May 1902 Wife Married 1 Nov 1919 Artie b. 8 Sept 1900 d. 17 Sept 1968 Husband Frieda b. 26 Jan 1902 Wife Married 8 Apr 1922 == per Denning Cem, Denning Twp, Franklin Co IL cem. book (Pat HINDMAN 2010) pg 57 WILLIS, Artie 8 Sept 1900 - 17 Sept 1968 Husband WILLIS, Frieda 26 Jan 1902 - 16 May 2001 Wife Married: 8 April 1922 WILLIS, Wauynetta 5 May 1902 - 31 Jan 1993 Wife WILLIS, Oscar 2 Oct 1898 - 29 Jan 1977 Husband Married: 1 Nov 1919 pg 136 WILLIS, Eva B. 1880 - 1940 WILLIS, Marshall 1875 - 1956 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie V." <debvee60@gmail.com> To: <ilfrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2013 8:13 PM Subject: [ILFRANKL] WILLIS, A. C. "Slew" 1900-1977 obit > The Southern Illinoisan, Carbondale, Illinois, Wednesday, September > 18, 1968, page 12 > WEST FRANKFORT MAN DIES IN ST. LOUIS > A. C. "Slew" WILLIS, 68, of Rt. 2, West Frankfort, died at 7:10 a.m. > Tuesday in Moun St. Rose Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. He had been a > patient there two months and in ill health three years. > Mr. WILLIS was born in Franklin County Sept 8, 1900, the son of > Marshall and Eva MADDOX WILLIS. He worked for the county highway > department between 1950 and 1965 and was a coal miner prior to that > time. He was a member of the Town Mount Baptist Church, West > Frankfort, Frankfort Masonic Lodge No. 567 and the Odd Fellows Lodge > of West Frankfort. > He leaves his wife, Frieda; a son, Gene of Indianapolis, Ind.; one > grandson; brothers, Oscar and Howard of West Frankfort; and sisters, > Mrs. Ruby REED, Mrs Pearl RUMSEY, Mrs. Evelyn CLEM and Mrs. Virginia > DAWSON, all of West Frankfort. > Funeral services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at the Reedy Funeral Home, > West Frankfort. The Rev Morris Absher will officiate. Burial will be > in Denning Cemetery, West Frankfort. Friends may call at the funeral > home.