GRETA WILLEFORD

WOLF LAKE, Ill. -- Funeral for Greta J. Willeford of Wolf Lake will be held at 7 p.m. today at Meredith Funeral Home in Grand Tower, Ill. The Rev. John Prather will officiate. Interment will be at a later date in Walker Hill Cemetery.

Friends may call at Meredith Funeral Home from 4 p.m. until service time.

Lutz and Rendleman Funeral Home in Anna, Ill., is in charge of arrangements.

Willeford, 56, died Monday, Jan. 1, 2001, at Southeast Missouri Hospital in Cape Girardeau.

She was born Feb. 15, 1944, at Grand Tower, daughter of William Ford and Ruby Jane Reed Baltzell. She and Lester "Red" Willeford were married Oct. 6, 1979, at Wood River, Ill.

Survivors include her husband; three sons, William Walker of Fidley, Ill., Gary Walker of Shipman, Ill., Scott Walker of Wolf Lake; three brothers, William Baltzell of Ava, Ill., Millard "Skeeter" Baltzell of McClure, Mo., Wesley "Duge" Baltzell of Texas; a sister, Faye "Sis" Oyler of Grand Tower; seven grandchildren; 17 stepgrandchildren; and two great-stepgrandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents and a brother.