JEAN ANNA MYRTLE STRUVE WILLIS

STRUVE, WILLIS, WRIGHT

Posted By: JEANNE (email)
Date: 12/31/2005 at 11:13:45

Washington Post, The (DC) - January 22, 2000

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Deceased Name: Jean S. Willis -- Secretary

Jean S. Willis, 79, a secretary to members of the board of the Washington Star newspaper from the 1970s until it closed in 1981, died Jan. 18 at Suburban Hospital. She had cancer.

Mrs. Willis was a native of Clinton, Iowa, and a resident of Bethesda.

She accompanied her husband to Army posts elsewhere in the United States before moving to the Washington area in the 1950s. She was a secretary at the National Institutes of Health before joining the Star.

She was a volunteer in the library of Bethesda United Methodist Church, where she participated in Community Bible Study.

Her husband, Daniel P. Willis, died in 1961.

Survivors include two children, David Willis of Ely, Nev., and Janet Wright of St. Augustine, Fla.; two sisters; and two grandchildren.