Anthony Willis
Posted: July 2, 2009
Anthony Lavette Willis, 44, died June 25, 2009, at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo. Services are Friday at 1 p.m. at Sanders Chapel CME Church in Columbus. Visitation is today from noon-6 p.m. at Carter’s Funeral Service of Columbus with the Rev. J.W. Honeysucker officiating. Burial will follow at Galilee Cemetery in Hodge, La. He was born July 3, 1964, to J.W. Willis and Pearlie Saulsberry Willis. He was formerly with Columbus Municipal School District and Johnston Tombigbee Furniture Manufacturing Co. He was a 1982 graduate of Jonesboro-Hodge High School and attended Alcorn State University. He was a member of Galilee MB Church and served on the Male Usher Board. He is survived by his wife, Valorie Willis; children, Jamalle, Jaszmine and Jameale Willis, all of Columbus; sisters, Boyce Willis, Beartice Cooper, Betty Sue Johnson, all of Hodge, La., and Carolyn Willis, of Grapevine, Texas; and brother, Willard Willis, of Hodge, La. Pallbearers are family and friends.