Ada Willis

Funeral Services were held 2:00 P.M., Thursday, May 12, 1994 at Higby Mortuary. Interment was held in the Richland Cemetery in Marquette, Nebraska.

OBITUARY: Ada Willis

Ada Viola Willis, the daughter of David and Ortha Hixon, was born March 11, 1897, at Marquette, Nebraska, and died May 9, 1994, at Aurora, Nebraska, at the age of 97 years, 1 month, and 28 days.

She grew up in the Marquette area, where she attended country school.

On April 7, 1917, she was united in marriage to Arcle “Hap” Willis, at York. He preceded her in death on May 6, 1963. They farmed in the Marquette vicinity until 1924, when they moved to Kansas City, and in 1925, they moved to a farm near Atchison, Kansas, in 1945, they moved to Arnold, Nebraska, and in 1954, they returned to Marquette. In 1986, she moved to Aurora where she resided at the Colonial Corner, and in 1989, she entered the Hamilton Manor in Aurora.

Ada was a member of the Marquette Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, 6 brothers, and 4 sisters.

Those who remain to cherish her memory are her son, Arcle Willis, Jr., and his wife Donna, of Grand Island; 3 grandchildren, and 7 great grandchildren.