Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
Sikes/Sykes Family Cards - Person Sheet
NameWillis Ronald Whitford 
Birth9 Dec 1937, Lyon County, KY
FatherJoseph Wade Whitford (1904-1959)
MotherVinnie Theresa Lockwood (-1991)
Spouses
Birth30 Sep 1941
Death17 Nov 2017, Sullivan, Franklin County, MO
BurialReedville Cemetery, Franklin County, MO
FatherJames Luther Sullivan
MotherBertha Florence Cooksey
Notes for Willis Ronald Whitford
Willis Ronald Whitford, 69, of Sullivan, Mo., died Thursday, Aug. 24, 2006, at the Truman Veterans Administration Hospital in Columbia, Mo.
Born Dec. 7, 1936, in Lyon County, a son of the late Joseph Wade and Vinie Theresa Lockwood Whitford, he lived in Princeton for a number of years. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was a former employee of Kerr-McGee in Grants, N.M., and then Pea Ridge Mining Company at Sullivan, Mo., for 17 years, prior to working for Ace Manufacturing Company where he retired at age 62. He was a member of the Word of Life Worship Center in Sullivan.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Jean Sullivan Whitford; three sons, Ronald Whitford, Timothy Whitford and wife Trisha, and Jeffery Whitford and wife Madonna, all of Sullivan, Mo., nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Madge Holland of Princeton; and two brothers, W.L. Whitford and wife Maxine and Herschel Whitford and wife Carolyn.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, Aug. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of the Eaton Funeral Home at Sullivan, Mo. The Rev. Terry Palmer officiated the service.
Interment was in Reedville Cemetery at Sullivan, Mo.
Born Dec. 7, 1936, in Lyon County, a son of the late Joseph Wade and Vinie Theresa Lockwood Whitford, he lived in Princeton for a number of years. A veteran of the U.S. Army, he was a former employee of Kerr-McGee in Grants, N.M., and then Pea Ridge Mining Company at Sullivan, Mo., for 17 years, prior to working for Ace Manufacturing Company where he retired at age 62. He was a member of the Word of Life Worship Center in Sullivan.
Survivors include his wife, Shirley Jean Sullivan Whitford; three sons, Ronald Whitford, Timothy Whitford and wife Trisha, and Jeffery Whitford and wife Madonna, all of Sullivan, Mo., nine grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; a sister, Madge Holland of Princeton; and two brothers, W.L. Whitford and wife Maxine and Herschel Whitford and wife Carolyn.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, Aug. 28, at 11 a.m. at the Chapel of the Eaton Funeral Home at Sullivan, Mo. The Rev. Terry Palmer officiated the service.
Interment was in Reedville Cemetery at Sullivan, Mo.