Deceased Name: Marlene A. (Harrell) Willaby
© Durant Daily Democrat - Monday, July 24, 2006
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Marlene A. Willaby, 62 A service will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Rock Creek Community Church for Marlene A. Willaby, 62, Durant, who died Friday, July 21, 2006, at her residence in Garland, Texas. J.B. Barton will officiate.
She was born Sunday, Feb. 6, 1944, in San Diego, Calif., to Jarvis Harrell and Velma Powell. She was a homemaker who liked to collect ceramic pigs. She was a member of the Wings of Deliverance Tabernacle. She enjoyed crochet and singing gospel music.
She was preceded in death by her father and brother J.W. Harrell.
She is survived by daughters Denise Kirk, Wolf City, Texas, and Jarvita Morrow, Little Elm, Texas; son Lee Dirickson, Garland; sisters Charlene Ticknor, Dallas, Texas, Carrol Brown, Wade, Dorothy Gasteneau and Trecia Harrod, Wade; five grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Burial will be in Bokchito Cemetery, Bokchito, with Gene Brown, Robert Russell, George Harrod, Jason Brown, Steve Morton and Barry Taylor serving as pallbearers.
Family hour will be 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Condolences may be sent to dhfh@communicomm.com.
Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.