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© Ladusau~Evans Funeral Home Enid, Oklahoma November 2016 February 21, 1929 ~ November 29, 2016 A Celebration of Life Service for Margaret Wills, age 87, of Enid, is 2:00 pm, Friday, December 2, 2016 at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend Jim Edmison will officiate, with burial to follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday, December 1, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home. Margaret was born February 21, 1929 in Kingfisher, Ok to Arley Marion Osburn and Magdelena Anna Elizabeth (Marcus) Osburn, and passed away Tuesday, November 29, 2016. Margaret was raised in Hennessey, Oklahoma and met the love of her life, LeRoy Wills, in Kremlin, Oklahoma, and they were married March 16, 1957. They were married 45 years before LeRoy passed away in 2002. LeRoy and Margaret were blessed with three daughters, Arlene, Nelda, and Patricia. She worked at Quality Laundry in Enid for many years, until the birth of her second daughter, when she retired to take on the position of “domestic engineer”. Margaret loved to go to auctions and search for unusual items to bring home for her daughters. She enjoyed sprucing her flower beds and loved traveling, taking a trip every summer. One of her favorite things to do was play bingo, playing four or five cards at a time. She also enjoyed spending time with her children and grandchildren. Margaret’s faith was very important to her. She had a strong relationship with God, and every morning without fail she would spend quiet time drinking coffee and reading her bible. Margaret is preceded in death by her parents, her husband LeRoy Wills, granddaughter, Rebecca Lynn Carr, two sisters, Goldie Hall and Eva Harper, three brothers, David, Buddy, and Arley John Osburn, and son-in-law Wayne Hawkins. She is survived by three daughters, Arlene Hawkins, of Enid; Nelda Carr and husband Daryl, of Enid; Patty Meyer and husband Jimmy, of Covington; five grandchildren, Brian Carr, of Enid; John Hawkins and wife Melanie, of Edmond, OK; Valerie Johnson and husband Steven, of Enid; Jared Hawkins, of Enid; Amber Meyer of Covington, OK; one great-grandson, Cooper, who is due in January. Memorials in Margaret’s name may be made to Dementia Society of America with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodian of the funds. |
© Chapman Black Funeral Home Cleveland & Pawnee County, OK July 2019 May 26, 1935 ~ July 3, 2019 Donna Gayle Wills, 84, passed from this life July 3, 2019 in Enid, Oklahoma. She was born Donna Gayle Barney in Drummond, Oklahoma on May 26, 1935. Her parents, who preceded her in death, were Donald A. & Linnie (Rogers) Barney. Growing up in Enid, Donna graduated Enid High School in 1954 then Enid Business College in 1963. After graduation, Donna worked as a bookkeeper, a tax preparer, house cleaner, a saleswoman for Avon, and finally a librarian's assistant from 1999 to 2012. Donna volunteered in the IRS programs for VITA and TCE for 17 years. She also volunteered at the Enid Senior Citizen's Center until she moved to Cleveland in 1995. In Cleveland, Donna continued to volunteer until she began working for the Cleveland Library as a librarian's assistant. She mentored children both at the library and her home for several years through the library's mentoring program, the summer reading program and story-time. Shut-in's and nursing home residence throughout Cleveland enjoyed her delivering books to them. Whether it was about books, taxes, or the internet, Donna loved being there to answer people's questions. Donna's hobbies were helping and serving others, reading, walking, talking and working in the yard or garden. April 1, 1958, Donna accepted Jesus as her Lord and Savior, and was baptized at the Davis Park Christian Church in Enid, Oklahoma. From 1970 to 1976, she loved teaching Sunday school and bible school at the United Church of Christ as well as the Methodist Church in Drummond, Oklahoma. In November 2006, Donna lost her oldest son, Rodney Phillips. Then in January 2007, she lost her husband, Melvin, and her world almost ceased to exist. With the love and help of her heavenly Father, her younger son, Jerry, and her friends' support, she realized she still had a lot of work to do here on Earth. Donna then re-dedicated her life to Jesus in 2008 at the First Christian Church in Cleveland, Oklahoma. Surviving Donna is her son, Jerry, of Bellevue, Nebraska; 9 grandchildren; 10 great grandchildren; several cousins; her church family; her special friend, Jennifer James; and her library friends. Services are under the direction of Chapman-Black Funeral Home in Cleveland, Oklahoma. A burial will be held at Memorial Park Cemetery in Enid, Oklahoma at 10:00am Wednesday, July 10, 2019. Friends |
© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma December 12, 2000 September 20, 1939 ~ December 10, 2000 Recitation of Rosary for Ronald Eugene Wills, 61, will be 7p.m. today in Henninger-Allen Funeral Home Chapel. Tony Crispo, deacon, will preside. Mass of Christian Burial will be 1p.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church. The Rev James Mickus will officiate. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. He was born September 20, 1939, in Enid to John Henry and Emma Alice Magdiburg Wills and died Sunday, December 10, 2000, in Enid. He lived in Hennessey from 1957 to 1993 and worked in the oil fields. He also worked for a local grain elevator. He was a member of St Francis Xavier Catholic Church. Surviving are three sisters, Patricia Ann King of Enid, Neva Cummings of Gunnison, Colo., and Pauline Carter of Helena; two brothers, Charles Paine of Muskogee and Homer Paine of Enid. He was preceded in death by one sister and two brothers. |
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