Sheila Dian Willis, 59, of Middleton, died Thursday morning, May 17, 2007 at Jackson-Madison County General Hospital.
The wife of Andrew Monroe Willis, who survives, she was a homemaker. Mrs. Willis was born July 14, 1947 in Tupelo, Miss., the daughter Barbara Henry Michael of Bureau, Ill. and the late Williard McCann. She lived for a time in Darren, Ill. before making her home in Middleton in 1974. She was a member of Dixie Hills Baptist Church and the Gideon Auxillary.
In addition to her husband, whom she married May 8, 1965, and mother, survivors include a daughter and son-in-law, Kim and Richie Lipford; a son and his wife, Roger and Tanya Willis, all of Middleton; four sisters, Elaine Bishop of Bay View, Ill., Karen Erwin, Regina Short and Tonya Henry, all of Bureau, Ill.; four brothers, Michael McCann of Middleton, Roger McCann of Metamora, Ill., Timmy and Tyson McCann, both of Bureau, Ill. and six grandchildren, Anna, Jessie, Ella and Maddie Willis, Taylor and Macy Lipford.
In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by one son, Michael Andrew Willis.