Wills, Dora 1913-1984

WILLS, KMENT, MORAVEC

Posted By: Linda Ziemann, volunteer (email)
Date: 6/6/2009 at 19:52:28

DORA WILLS
WAS 47-YEAR
SENEY RESIDENT

Mrs. Hollis (Dora) Wills, 71, Seney, longtime Plymouth County Home employee, died Dec. 19, 1984, at Floyd Valley Hospital, LeMars, after an illness of five days. She was the mother of Missionary Phyliss Masters.

Funeral will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at Seney United Methodist church with Dan Jones and Curtis Masters officiating. Burial will be in the Seney Cemetery under the direction of the Mauer-Johnson Funeral Home. A prayer service will be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the funeral home.

The former Dora Charlotte Kment, she was born July 12, 1913, at Cotesfield, Neb., to Charles and Emma Moravec Kment. She came as a child to South Dakota and to Hawarden in 1934, moving to Seney-LeMars area in 1937, where she has since lived. She was employed at the Plymouth County Home for 25 years until her retirement.

She married Hollis Wills June 2, 1931, at Dallas, S.D. She was a member of the Seney Methodist church and the United Methodist Women.

Survivors are her husband, Hollis, LeMars; three daughters, Phyliss Masters, LeMars; Joyce Wills, Westwood, Calif., and Mrs. Kenneth (Janice) Coulson, Placentia, Calif.; a son, Keith Wills, Glendale, Ariz.; two brothers, Charles Kment Jr., Forest Lake, Minn., and William Kment, Arvada, Colo.; eleven grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Dean, in 1960; and a brother and a sister.

~Source: LeMars Daily Sentinel, December 20, 1984