Tecumseh resident Mary Frances Garner Willis died Tuesday in Oklahoma City at the age of 80.

Mrs. Willis was born February 4, 1917, in Perkins, to Benjamin Harrison and R. Teela Catherine Goforth Garner.

She attended IXL School at Perkins, and Cushing and Clinton Schools.

She married Lenton "Bud" Willis on July 25, 1936, in Shawnee.

Mrs. Willis was a homemaker and had lived in the Shawnee-Tecumseh area since 1936. She was also a member of Free Will Baptist Church of Tecumseh.

Survivors include a sister, Naydean Benson of Clifton, Colorado; a stepsister, Virginia Martin of Hobart; two sisters-in-law, Anona May Willis of Tecumseh; and Gerene Willis of Wayton, Arkansas; and a number of cousins, nieces and nephews; as well as numerous friends.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Lenton "Bud" Willis, on March 31, 1981; her parents; one sister, Ruby Tinnie; and one brother, Johnny B. Garner.

Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday at Cooper Funeral Home Chapel in Tecumseh with the Rev. Roger Ballard officiating.

Burial will be at the Tecumseh Cemetery.