Willie Fay Ward

Funeral services for Willie Fay Ward, 86, of Nacogdoches will be held at 1:00pm on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at Eastside United Pentecostal Church with Rev. Ennis Fuller officiating. Interment will follow at Cove Springs Cemetery in Melrose. Visitation will be held prior to the service beginning at 12:00pm.

Willie Fay Ward passed away on Thursday, December 4, 2025 in Nacogdoches.

She and a twin brother, Billy Ray was born on May 10, 1939 to Marvin and Vera Mae Vail Ballow. She graduated from Woden High School in 1958 and retired from Prudential Insurance in Houston. In 1970 she married her husband Pete Ward and moved to Alazan, Texas where she worked at Stephen F. Austin State University for several years. Later she and her husband operated a poultry breeding farm for Tyson for over 27 years. She was a member of Eastside United Pentecostal Church.

She is survived by her nieces, Ruthie Tienda and her family and Delight and her family; stepdaughters, Susie LaJean Ward Worley and her sons, Christopher Worley and Jeremy Worley and Margaret Ward and her son Bobby.

She is preceded in death by her loving husband Pete Ward; her parents; twin brother Billy Ray Ballow; brother Howard Ballow; sister, Ruthie Plagens; nieces Nanette Tienda and Glenda Tienda; nephew Howard Ray Ballow and stepson Billy Ward.