{"id":764,"date":"2019-09-16T15:00:05","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T19:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis2\/?p=764"},"modified":"2020-08-30T11:27:42","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T15:27:42","slug":"willis-samuel-dolphus-d-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/willis-samuel-dolphus-d-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Willis, Samuel Dolphus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Samuel Dolphus Willis<\/strong>, age 93, born, October 4, 1911, Hohenwald, TN, died December 25, 2004 at his residence in Hohenwald, TN.  The funeral will be held at: McDonald Funeral Home Inc, December 27, 2004 at 1:00 PM.  The officiating clergy will be Malcolm George, Bill Webb, Leamon Flatt and Gloria Watts.  Burial will take place in the Swiss Cemetery Mausoleum, Hohenwald, TN.  Visitation will be Sunday &#8211; 1:00PM.  Survivors include his son, Leon (Margie) Willis;  Daughters, Dolene (William C.) Rogers, Gloria (Bob) Watts and Colene Spears;  Sister, Frances Wienclaw;  17 Grandchildren;  30 Great-grandchildren;  25 Great-great-grandchildren.  Preceded in death by his Wife, Sara Leona Arzell Talley Willis; Parents, Thomas Seaborn  and Elizabeth Cash Willis;  Brothers, Aubrey, Raymond, Loyd and Claude Willis;  Sisters, Lorene Abernathy, Flora Leonard, and Pauline Hinson;  Grandson, Bryant Rogers; Son-in-law, Richard Spears.  Mr. Willis was the owner of Willis Motor Co. for 20 years, City Councilman for 4 years, Vice Mayor for 12 years and Mayor for 12 years.   Mr. Willis was also a Real Estate Entrepreneur.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Information received from Richard Tate, Funeral Director for the McDonald Funeral Home, Hohenwald, TN.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samuel Dolphus Willis, age 93, born, October 4, 1911, Hohenwald, TN, died December 25, 2004 at his residence in Hohenwald, TN. The funeral will be held at: McDonald Funeral Home Inc, December 27, 2004 at 1:00 PM. The officiating clergy will be Malcolm George, Bill Webb, Leamon Flatt and Gloria Watts. Burial will take place in the Swiss Cemetery Mausoleum,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/willis-samuel-dolphus-d-2004\/\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[247],"tags":[245,43,322,732,372],"class_list":["post-764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcdonaldfuneralhome","tag-rogers","tag-spears","tag-watts","tag-wienclaw","tag-willis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/lewis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}