Velma Tavel Willis
Services for Velma Tavel Willis, 86, of Rusk, will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 12, 2008, at the Williams Funeral Home Chapel, with the Rev. Phal Carter and the Rev. W.D. Brown officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery in Ponta, under the direction of Williams Funeral Home. Mrs. Willis died Sunday, Jan. 6, 2008, at the Birmingham Health Care Center in Rusk. She was born Jan. 1, 1922, in Rusk. She attended Shady Grove Elementary and Fred Douglas High School of Jacksonville. She attended Good Street Baptist Church of Dallas. She was preceded in death by her parents, Photho and Lou Mansel Chandler; her three sisters, Mollie M. Wickware, Carrie B. and Doreth Chandler; and three brothers, T.V., L.C. and T.C. Chandler. Survivors include several nieces, nephews and friends. Pallbearers will be her nephews and grandnephews. Honorary pallbearers will be O.C. Chandler, Cleveland Chandler, Raymond Chandler, Billy Wickware, Damon Wickware and Clarence Chandler. A special thanks to the Birmingham Health Care Center in Rusk for their care of our aunt.
Published in the Jacksonville Daily Progress