MARIE WILLIS

ADA-Services for Mary Marie Willis, 87, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Dr. Rusty Fuller and Rev. Ray Talbott will officiate. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery in Stonewall. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Willis died Monday, September 7, 2009 at Ada. She was born June 21, 1922 at Decatur, Texas to S. J. and Gladys Davis Isenberg. She attended school in Texas.

She married B. M. Willis on March 4, 1947 at Tishomingo, Oklahoma. She and her family moved to Ada in October 1967 from Wapanucka. Mrs. Willis was a homemaker and a longtime member of Oak Avenue Baptist Church. She was a babysitter in her home and a church nursery worker at Trinity Baptist Church for 19 years.

Survivors include her husband, B. M. Willis, of the home; four daughters, Ruby Seamster, Ada, Adean Mathis, Wapanucka, Ima Jean Winton, Stonewall and Ann Willis, Portland, TX; two sons, Neal Willis, Dumas, TX and Danny Willis, Dumas, TX; one brother, Gene Isenberg, Porter, TX; five grandsons; two granddaughters; and seven great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by nine brothers and sisters.

Bearers will be Greg and D. R. Willis, Matt Willis, Landon Winton, Leyton Winton, and Stan Lemons. Honorary bearers will be Bill Timothy and Dennis Story.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada