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- Niagara Gazette - 1/19/1953
Prayer services at 1:30 p. m. tomorrow
at the Lane Funeral home
and funeral services at 2_ p. m. at
the First Christian church will be
held for Mrs. Mary C. Willis, 57,
of 1119 Pasadena avenue, who was
stricken fatally while attending a
church meeting in Buffalo on Saturday.
The Rev. Jesse J. Simoson, minister
of the First Christian church, will
conduct the services. Mrs. Willis was
an active worker in that church and
in the Women's Benefit association
at the church.
She was a native of Buffalo but
had lived in Niagara Falls most of
her life.
Surviving are her husband, Perry
L. Willis, Sr.; three daughters, Mrs.
Jackson Zimmerman and Miss Alice
Willis, both this city, and Mrs. John
Shirback, .Ransomville; a son. Perry
L. Willis, Jr.: two sisters, Mrs. Richard
Willis, this city, and Mrs. Gerald
McCollum, Ransomville; three
brothers, Alexander and Arthur Bratt,
this city, and Leonard Bratt, Saltsville,
Va. She is also survived by several
nieces and nephews and 16 grandchildren.
Burial will be in North Ridge
cemetery.
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